Vickie stormed. “Mama doesn’t mean to take me to Town until the spring, and I can learn here just as well as at home.” Roworths and Ingrams, together with Anita and Miss Bannister, were seated at breakfast in the dining-room. Constantia’s announcement of the contents of Lady Westwood’s letter had cast an immediate gloom over the company and roused her sister to rebellion. She breathed a sigh of relief that the Duke of Oxshott was not an early riser. “You cannot defy Mama in this, Vickie,” she said gently. “Apart from anything else, she would blame Miss Bannister, and maybe even Fanny, for your disobedience.” “Not to mention you and me, Con,” said Felix. “Of course you must go, Vickie.” Anita had been looking from one to another, tears filling her black eyes, her lower lip trembling. Now she slid down from her seat and hung on Vickie’s arm, wailing, “Don’t go, Aunt Vickie!” “I shan’t,” Vickie declared stoutly. “I fear we have no choice, Lady Victoria,”
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