Chapter 4The sun was shining on the lake and the swans were gliding majestically to and fro on the smooth waters. There were ducks of exquisite plumage among the reeds and small birds singing in the bushes.
Carina felt her heart lighten and she chided herself for being so ridiculous the night before.
“How could I have been so stupid as to be frightened?” she asked aloud.
Dipa ran over the clipped lawns and tried to make the ducks feed out of his hand with the scraps of bread they had bought down from the nurseries after breakfast.
Carina thought now that she must have been overtired and perhaps, if she was honest, a little hysterical after all the tumultuous events of the day.
And yet the terror that she had experienced was still very real despite the fact that the knock on the door h
