Chapter sixDorina awoke early despite the fact that she had found it hard to go to sleep.
She was worrying about the Earl and what diabolical ideas Jarvis would think up next.
She was quite certain that Jarvis was mad and that his desire for power and to be the Head of the Yarde Family had unhinged his mind.
She, however, tried to be practical and went into the garden to pick the herbs that would, she hoped, completely eliminate the last vestiges of the poison with which he had tried to destroy the Earl.
It was indeed fortunate that the Earl had drunk so little of the wine, otherwise he would undoubtedly have died.
Now he was alive, but the question was – for how long?
When Dorina had taken the herbs into the house and Nanny was helping her prepare them, she thought that she should a
