The Shoemaker's Daughter
“‘What is it, Letty?’ Emily said, impatient at being disturbed. She hadn’t been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge, but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her. And now that he’d escaped from that awful prison, come he would, she knew that as certainly as she knew daylight would follow darkness.
‘There’s a girl to see you, Miss Emily, insists on it she does, quite cheeky she is, mind.’ There was a world of d...isdain in the young maid’s voice.
Emily frowned. ‘Insists? Who is she exactly?’ ‘The shoemaker’s daughter, miss, says she got a message from Mister Grenfell.’ Emily’s thoughts raced, could the girl possibly know anything about Craig?
‘Bring her in to me, I’ll soon sort out just what it is she wants,’ Emily said, rising to her feet and shaking the creases from her crinoline gown.
Letty seemed about to demur but Emily lifted her chin challengingly and the maid bobbed and left the room.MoreLess
‘There’s a girl to see you, Miss Emily, insists on it she does, quite cheeky she is, mind.’ There was a world of d...isdain in the young maid’s voice.
Emily frowned. ‘Insists? Who is she exactly?’ ‘The shoemaker’s daughter, miss, says she got a message from Mister Grenfell.’ Emily’s thoughts raced, could the girl possibly know anything about Craig?
‘Bring her in to me, I’ll soon sort out just what it is she wants,’ Emily said, rising to her feet and shaking the creases from her crinoline gown.
Letty seemed about to demur but Emily lifted her chin challengingly and the maid bobbed and left the room.MoreLess
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