Stroke of Midnight
“Alex’s aunt was missing.
The footman had admitted Laura, and she had gone directly upstairs to the old woman’s suite of rooms. Not finding anyone there, she’d peeked into the other upstairs chambers and did the same on the other floors. She even glanced out a back window into the garden, but the bench beneath the rose arbor was deserted. Neither the footman at the front door nor a maid dusting the clutter in the drawing room had seen their mistress in the past hour.
Descending the narrow steps ...to the cellar, Laura spotted the black-clad figure of the housekeeper ahead in the corridor, walking toward the laundry room. “Mrs. Samson!”
Pivoting, the hatchet-faced woman stared blankly as if wondering why a fine lady in dark blue silk should have invaded the domain of the servants. Then her eyes widened and she bobbed a curtsy. “Lady … Copley.”
Laura ignored the woman’s obvious discomfiture at the change in their relationship. “Has Lady Josephine gone out in the barouchet?”MoreLess
The footman had admitted Laura, and she had gone directly upstairs to the old woman’s suite of rooms. Not finding anyone there, she’d peeked into the other upstairs chambers and did the same on the other floors. She even glanced out a back window into the garden, but the bench beneath the rose arbor was deserted. Neither the footman at the front door nor a maid dusting the clutter in the drawing room had seen their mistress in the past hour.
Descending the narrow steps ...to the cellar, Laura spotted the black-clad figure of the housekeeper ahead in the corridor, walking toward the laundry room. “Mrs. Samson!”
Pivoting, the hatchet-faced woman stared blankly as if wondering why a fine lady in dark blue silk should have invaded the domain of the servants. Then her eyes widened and she bobbed a curtsy. “Lady … Copley.”
Laura ignored the woman’s obvious discomfiture at the change in their relationship. “Has Lady Josephine gone out in the barouchet?”MoreLess
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