The Reluctant Governess. Anne Mather

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      ‘And what has made you—extra sensitive, fräulein?’ he queried, intently. He glanced towards Sophie. ‘Does my daughter have anything to do with it?’

      He was more perceptive where Sophie was concerned than she would have believed. All the same, she had no intention now of turning tell-tale and destroying her own self-respect as well as arousing Sophie’s further antipathy.

      To her relief, the door from the kitchen passage opened at that moment and Maria came in carrying a tray on which was a jug of hot milk and another of coffee, and three beakers. She came across the wide expanse of polished floor and placed the tray on the long polished table.

      The Baron left Victoria and went across to Maria with a smile. ‘Danke, Maria,’ he nodded pleasantly. ‘It is most welcome!’

      Maria coloured with pleasure and then looked at Victoria. ‘So you are back, fräulein,’ she said, with some relief. ‘Gustav was about to go and look for you.’

      ‘For me?’ Victoria frowned. ‘Whatever for? I wasn’t lost.’

      The Baron dismissed Maria with a shake of his head, and after the old woman had left them he said: ‘The weather is bad in these mountains. A sudden snowstorm can impair the progress of the most experienced climber, and to tumble into a drift without the knowledge of how to get out again can be fatal.’

      Victoria uttered an exclamation. ‘But I was not climbing. I walked round the outer walls of the schloss, that was all.’

      ‘With Fritz.’

      ‘With Fritz, of course.’

      ‘An animal about whom you know nothing and who last evening aroused timidity inside you!’

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