A Battle for Love by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78213-958-4
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd
Published: 2017-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

There was no question of Serla riding the following morning and, when she went down to breakfast, it was to find that the Marquis had already left the house.

She went up to the Dowager’s bedroom and found her still in bed with a pile of letters in front of her.

“More invitations, my dear,” she said, “but we shall have to refuse them.”

Serla looked surprised.

“Why?” she asked.

“Because Clive wants to go to the country to see some horses that have been delivered at Darincourt Hall and it would be a good idea if you and I both had a rest.”

“I would love to see the horses,” Serla smiled.

The Dowager turned over her letters.

“There are not any important balls until just before Ascot,” she said, “so we can enjoy ourselves in the country without feeling that we are missing anything.”

Serla was excited at the thought of the horses. It was wonderful riding before breakfast in Hyde Park with the Marquis. But it would be even better if she could gallop wildly over the fields without any interference.

She told the maid who was looking after her what to pack, but she had already had her instructions. There was nothing for her to do and a visit to Bond Street had been cancelled.

‘I have so many clothes already,’ Serla reflected, ‘that they will need a whole room to themselves.’

She was about to go to the library when the butler came in and handed her a letter on a silver salver and when Serla took it, she guessed who it was from.

“There’s also a large basket of flowers in the hall, miss, and I wonder where you’d like it to go.”

Serla knew that this was also from Lord Charlton.

“I think it had better be put in my bedroom,” she said. “Do you think I could take it down to the country?”

“It’ll go real easily into the brake which’ll carry his Lordship’s valet and her Ladyship’s lady’s maid.”

“That will be very kind,” she said, “and perhaps it could be put in my bedroom at Darincourt Hall.”

She thought it a mistake for the Marquis to see it, as it might make him angry with Lord Charlton again. At the same time it was so exciting to have flowers given to her for the first time in her life.

She put down the letter and said to Baxter,

“I think I will come and see the flowers before they are put with the luggage.”

As she had expected, it was a large and expensive arrangement of orchids and must have cost a lot of money.

She looked at it for a while and then again asked Baxter to put it with the luggage in case it was forgotten.

She went back into the room where she had been before and picked up the note.

As she had expected, Lord Charlton told her how much he loved her and begged her to see him as soon as it was possible.

“I cannot sleep, I cannot think, I cannot eat,” he wrote, “until I see you again.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.