Fate plays strange pranks!
Chapter Ten.
How Jane Listened and Told.
Just at the same time Lady Lisle’s barouche was getting very close to the swing gates and the carriage drive of the Denes, with her ladyship leaning back.
“Was not that a vehicle of some kind leaving the stable yard, Thomas?” she said to the coachman.
“Yes, my lady.”
“Could you see what it was?”
“Not quite, my lady, but I think it was ours, with Black Nelly in the sharps, for I heard one of the clicks she gives when she oversteps with her off hind hoof.”