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The proble passed the need for sense and reason

“Ada, there’s no tio out”

The first guests would arrive at the assee to leave the house just before eight, all because Arabella insisted on rand entrance Lydia would be back from Greystone Manor within the hour

“Go out, miss?”

“Yes”

“Now?”

“Now, Ada There is no time to lose”

“But—”

“Lock the door behind me If Lady Lovell knocks, you’re to say I’m in the bathtub”

Ada’s eyes bulged “But what about the assembly?”

“I shall be back in plenty of tiue in his place Indeed, it would go so more enjoyable “Wait here Do not leave this room until I return”

Ada nodded

“Now find reat skill when it caht on her feet, could h the shadows

Within h the servants’ quarters and was racing along the woodland path on her way to Greystone Manor

On her way to a date with a devil