Sophie flew into a temper because she was not as pleased with her trousseau as she thought she would be and insisted on going to London for another fitting for her wedding dress.
This was a relief to Titania because she could ride as much as she wished and there was no one to find some task for her every minute of the day.
However her apprehension at having to leave for Velidos grew and grew. It was one thing to go abroad with her father and mother which she had loved and quite another to be travelling with Sophie who treated her merely as a servant.
She learned from the Duchess that Sophie was to be allocated two Ladies-in-Waiting from Velidos and she was to be the third and obviously inferior to the other two.
“What can I do?” she asked Nanny pitifully. “How can I go where there will be no one I can talk to and no one who will be interested in me as a person?”
“I expect you’ll find that quite a lot of people will be,”
