Theresa and the Tiger by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782138617
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks ltd
Published: 2016-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Theresa came very slowly down the backstairs, not troubling to be quiet because there was nobody to hear her and let herself out through the garden door.

The dawn had only just broken and she doubted if even the servants were yet awake and going to the kitchen for their first cup of coffee.

They had gone to bed surprisingly late the night before, because unexpectedly, almost as if an explosion had occurred, the Marquis had come home.

In the three weeks that Theresa had been at the Château Sare she had been so happy that she had almost forgotten there was a Master of the château who employed her.

When she had first arrived, she had been apprehensive in case, as Gennie feared, the servants were hostile and disagreeable and that she would feel humiliated by them.

Instead, as they drove from the Station through the beautiful wooded country passing very few cottages on the way, she realised that she had stepped into a world that was quite different from anything she had known before.

In the far distance, although she could not see them, she knew that there were the Pyrénées and sometimes the wind would blow cold from the mountains, especially in the winter.

To the West, although again she could not see it, there was the sea.

She fancied that there was a touch of salt in the air and visualised the rolling ocean stretching from the French coast across the Atlantic to the new worlds she knew so little about.

Then, as they drove through the woods, which were bursting with the green leaves of spring, she had her first sight of the château.

It was so beautiful, so fairy-tale-like, so like something out of her imagination, that she drew in her breath and could only stare at it thinking that it was unreal.

Later, when she knew it better, she found that everything about it was a delight from the formal gardens laid out in the pattern set by Louis XIV to the great State rooms that had been designed and decorated at the same time and which had changed very little with the passing years.

Because Château Sare was so far away from Paris and several miles from the nearest market town, it had escaped the horrors of the Revolution and the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars, like a precious jewel enclosed and safely preserved amongst its woods.

It was to be discovered now, Theresa thought, only by people who were really interested and that was what she became, more and more so every day.

All the servants at the château were very old and had been there for many years.

Once they got over their surprise of finding that the new cook was not only a woman but also very young, they treated her as if she was a child whom they must protect and look after.

They were only too willing to do anything she asked of them and they tried to prevent her from working, not because they were jealous or looked on her as an intruder, but because they felt that it might be too much for her.

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