The Eternal Collection: Books 61-70 by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland [Cartland, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781782133643
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks ltd
Published: 2020-01-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“It seems incredible that we have now been here five days,” Ivana said to Nanny as she was changing from her riding habit into her green gown for tea.

“Our invalids certainly look better,” Nanny replied, “and, although I likes to think it’s the way we nurse them, I believe really, it’s his Lordship’s good food. I didn’t, until I came here, know that so much meat existed.”

Ivana smiled.

She had already heard this several times and she knew that Nanny was enjoying every moment of their visit to Heathcliffe.

She was waited on, she had plenty of other servants to talk to and every time she was with Ivana she praised the arrangements in the household and the manner in which everything was organised.

“I cannot imagine what Grandpapa would say if he could hear you,” Ivana would say teasingly.

She knew that after years of scrimping and pinching and wondering where each penny would come from, it was, in fact, a holiday that Nanny richly deserved.

For her own part she too was enjoying herself inordinately.

She had never realised how fascinating it was not only to have superb horses to ride and her every wish anticipated almost before she thought of it but also to have all to herself the companionship of two handsome young gentlemen.

She always thought, because she had heard stories of the Marquis’s extravagance and raffish behaviour, that he would be stupid and uninterested in anything except the pleasures of the Beau Monde.

Instead she found he had read extensively and the conversation when they had meals together was so sparkling and so stimulating that she felt as if she was taking part in a play.

In fact everything that happened at Heathcliffe seemed a theatrical fantasy and, although she would not admit it to herself, she was dreading the moment when the curtain would fall and she must go back to the life she had known before.

When she went to bed at night, she found herself going over in her mind not only what had been said but the way the Marquis had looked.

She had never imagined any man could be so amazingly handsome without apparently being conscious of it or considering his appearance of any consequence.

It also surprised her that he was so strong and that not even the most strenuous exertions seemed to tire him.

As the weather was still very hot, the Marquis and Sir Anthony swam every morning in the sea. Then they would come back glowing with health and high spirits to eat an enormous breakfast with Ivana before they all went riding.

There were great stretches of the Downs where they could gallop until even the horses were exhausted and there were parts of the Heathcliffe estate which the Marquis had not seen for years and which Ivana could show him and tell him the local legends connected with them.

The two men listened to her and teased her and Anthony paid her extravagant compliments, which she laughed at as soon as she grew used to them.

She liked

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