18/33 Her message of love thrice underlined the repeated word. Her name was called from a carriage as she drove up to the door of the Winchester hostlery, and in the lady, over whose right eye and cheek a covering fold of silk concealed a bandage, the voice was her sister Riette's. With her were two babes and their nursemaids. 'You shall kiss the children afterwards; come into one of the rooms, Janey.' Alone together, before an embrace, she said, in the voice of tears hardening to the world's business, 'Chillon must not enter London. |