“I expect there will be plenty of people there and I hope I shall not be too late back.”
“Well, do wake me up if I’ve gone to sleep, and I’ll undo your gown.”
Malvina kissed her.
“You are very kind, Nanny, and I love having you with me here in Paris.”
Nanny smiled.
“Now get along with you,” she urged, “and have a really good evening. I hope perhaps you’ll be dancing.”
“I don’t know about dancing – ”
The butler hailed a fiacre for her.
She was sensible enough to have written down the address on a piece of paper, so that she did not have to say it aloud.
She handed the paper to the driver herself, so that there was no chance of the butler having a look at it.
Then he closed the door and she drove off.
She was pondering that whatever happened tonight it would be an adventure and s
