The Angel and the Sword by Sally Wragg

Author:Sally Wragg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 2016-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

Hettie returned to the hall in a rush. She was thrilled about the evening before her and yet she was unsure now whether Bill, who’d gone off in such an odd mood, would participate in the adventure or not. So far apart had they grown of late, she’d believe him only when he turned up; it wouldn’t even surprise her if he meant to tell her mother and spoil all their plans.

As she headed upstairs, General Hawker appeared from the State Room, hastily converted by Bronwyn into a meeting place for the war committee. He was carrying a bundle of papers under his arm.

‘And how’s your day been, m’dear?’ he asked kindly.

Pushing thoughts of Bill to the back of her mind, Hettie grinned. ‘Fine and dandy, General, thanks!’

‘And shall we see you at dinner tonight?’

‘I expect so, General. . . .’

Aware the news had pleased him, she stood watching momentarily as the elderly military man headed off in the direction of the antelibrary, a billiard room in olden days, today a small, dark room containing only table and chairs and a number of indifferent paintings, behind one of which was the safe where Loxley’s valuables and documents were kept and where, for the duration of the convention, he was intent on lodging the committee’s papers. Not for the first time, Hettie wondered what the committee members could possibly discuss of such a very great importance that it had to be locked away out of sight. Grandmamma said Nazi strength and power was growing at an alarming rate and everyone should pay attention to what was happening in Europe. She said the government was trying to fit the situation into the framework of British military and diplomatic policy, whatever she meant by it. Hettie struggled to understand the biggest part of what her grandmother told her but after what she’d seen for herself in Berlin, she accepted she must at least try. It was important. She was a duchess. She should know such things.

The thought had no sooner entered her head, vaguely unsettling and disturbing as it was, than she remembered the escapade planned for tonight. An adventure and when life had been so very boring of late! A smile crossed her face, catlike in its stealth and which, if only Katherine Loxley had been around to see it, would have worried her tremendously.

She was late. She’d yet to dress for dinner. Humming happily to herself, she headed quickly upstairs.

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