The Mysterious Maid-Servant

Later, by peeping over the banisters

I will – look after you in – future.”

“As I will look after you.”

Batley has looked after me as you told him to do

he saw that she was looking just as he had wished her to look with her fair hair falling over her shoulders to just below her waist

It was difficult to tell her what he felt when he knew she had saved his life by an action that might have destroyed her own

I know the Duke would be only too pleased to take your father’s place if we asked him

Henry Somercote gave her away

over your shoulders and I shall know how long it is. I have always wondered.”

Later, when I am really well, I am going to take you abroad, but

You will marry me here in Cheltenham and we will leave the following day for Lynd Park