The Winning Post Is Love by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78213-162-5
Publisher: Barbara Cartland.com
Published: 2012-11-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Rosetta woke up with a start and then she realised it was still very early.

It was not yet six o’clock.

For a moment she just lay in bed.

She could see, as the wardrobe door was open, the gown she had worn last night.

They had gone up to change for dinner at half past seven although the Marquis had not arrived and at the back of their minds was the fear that he would not turn up at all.

And that would be the end of the Racecourse!

To cheer herself up, Rosetta had then chosen one of Dolina’s prettiest gowns. It was pale pink and ornamented with diamante and flowers and it gave her the feeling when she put it on that she was the Fairy Queen of the garden.

When the Marquis did arrive, she had no idea that was exactly how she looked to him. He was astonished to see anyone so lovely or so well dressed in the country.

Now it swept over Rosetta like a wave of the sea that everything was even better than they had hoped. The Marquis would cooperate with them and actually finance the construction of the Racecourse.

‘We have won! We have won!’ she told herself.

She felt as if even the sunshine was brighter as it came streaming through the sides of the curtains.

Last night when they had gone up to bed, Gordon had escorted the Marquis to his room and then he came to Rosetta’s to say goodnight.

She was sitting at the dressing table taking off her jewellery.

“I cannot begin to thank you,” he said. “What can I give you as a present for being so brilliant?”

“I can answer that quite easily,” replied Rosetta. “I would love a ride on Starlight.”

“I might have known that would be your answer and he is yours for tomorrow if you really think you can control him.”

“I will be very disappointed if I fail!”

He thanked her again and she climbed into her bed feeling that the angels had helped them and everything was even more wonderful than she had hoped it would be.

As it was so early, Rosetta thought that she would take Gordon at his word and ride Starlight now.

There was always a chance that the situation might change or Dolina might come home and then she would have to return to her own home very quickly.

‘It’s now or never,’ she told herself and jumped out of bed.

As she saw it was going to be a hot day, she put on her riding skirt and a white blouse, but not her riding jacket and she guessed that if Starlight was obstreperous, the less she wore the easier it would be to control him.

She dressed very quickly and opened her bedroom door to find everything in the house was quiet.

There was no sign of any servants.

In the past when there were a great number of them, she was sure that the housemaids and the scullions would be on duty at five-thirty, but now the staff were old.

Rosetta remembered that before they went upstairs, Gordon had said that breakfast would be at nine o’clock.

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