5 Chapter 5

She gazed around. “Is there a secret passage leading from the ballroom to the conservatory?”

I smiled at her. The four-inch heels on my shoes put us almost at eye-level. “No.” Of course there was, but I was not about to tell that to a relative stranger.

“That’s rather unusual, don’t you think?” She followed me around the edge of the dance floor, around the enthusiastically fox-trotting couples and out into the relative quiet of the central hallway. “I’m sure I heard all these old townhouses had at least one secret passage, if only from one bedroom to another.”

“I really couldn’t say. I’ve only been here a short time.”

We strolled down the stairs and through the long vestibule on the ground floor to the rear of the house.

“How much longer will you be in London, Miss Sebring?”

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