Moon Magic by Elizabeth Rutland

Author:Elizabeth Rutland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, passion, british, adoption
ISBN: 9781434443175
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2013-09-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Much to Greta’s surprise, Nancy seemed in no hurry to get back to Paris, but spent her days idling in the sun and watching Pierre overhauling the cars. The huge yellow one in which they had arrived stood gleaming and ready for their departure, but Pierre was working now on a smaller car that had been standing in one of the garages.

“That’s her ladyship’s own car,” Maria had informed Greta. “She always uses it to run around in when she stays down here.” Now she fussed while Pierre went over it inch by inch until it was ready for her to go flying round the countryside in, and it was after one such ride that she said casually to Greta:

“Why don’t you take the car for a flip while I am away? It will make a change for you to see a bit of the countryside.”

Greta looked at her in surprise.

“Are you going away, then? I thought we were going back home soon?”

Nancy smiled her cat-like smile, as she answered in a woman-to-woman voice:

“Oh not yet...let me have a little fun while I am away. Richard won’t miss me, I assure you, and I want to meet some friends of mine in Rome for a few days.”

The whole house felt a sense of relief at Nancy’s departure, and the new nurse who, they learned, was entitled Miss Manners, came out of her retreat to sample the Italian sunshine. She stood blinking a little as she watched Greta playing with the baby in the garden, and as Greta caught sight of her she waved gaily and brought the child over to meet her.

“There he is,” Greta said, with all of a mother’s pride. “Isn’t he beautiful?”

Miss Manners looked at the child with her carefully prepared smile on her face, and then back at Greta.

“He certainly is...,” she began, then flushed hotly and seemed at a loss for words. To cover her embarrassment, she took the child in her arms and began to rock him gently to and fro, a gesture that was entirely to the baby’s liking.

Greta gave the nurse a puzzled look. What on earth was the matter with her? Clucking away to the child and doing all she could to avoid looking into her eyes. She gave a short, puzzled laugh, saying:

“Here—give him to me, he’s much too heavy now for that sort of thing.”

Miss Manners handed the child back gently and turned towards the house.

“I don’t think I’ll stay out in this sun too long,” she muttered. “It gives me such a headache.”

Greta walked thoughtfully down to the gate to meet Maria, who was taking her pick from the vegetable beds while Anna’s husband was out of the way. It was a sore point with Maria, that Anna’s husband objected to anything being taken out of his garden.

“He thinks he grows them just for show,” she would mutter angrily, slicing them up swiftly before the irate gardener put in an appearance.

Now Maria came panting round the corner

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