Desire and Despair Book 3 of Poacher s ProgressChapter 4 Marlow revisited
Sergeant Robert Crawshay, being military trained to keep to a schedule, drew the coach up outside my house promptly at nine. Alas, neither Zinnia nor Becky had been schooled in a like manner and, coupled with their feminine inability to keep track of time, it was well after ten by the time we left Queen Street. I had left a somewhat aggrieved Matilde behind. She had wanted to travel with us but I persuaded her to spend the day writing letters to send to Chateau Blanchard. I hoped either...