Ariadne's Diadem (1998)
““I’m not sure that’s wise, Miss Anne....”
“I don’t think Mr. Danby has come here to murder us in our beds,” Anne replied, and then turned to Mrs. Jenkins, who had hovered in the doorway throughout. “Please prepare the south room.”
The south room was the one kept aired for unexpected guests, so the implication was not lost upon the appalled housekeeper. “Surely you do not mean to offer this man hospitality, Miss Anne?”
“I can hardly turn him out into the rain.”
As the housekeeper’s lips parted to give any number of reasons why Mr. Charles Danby should be ejected forthwith, Anne sternly forestalled her. “I feel obliged to offer hospitality, and that is the end of it, Mrs. Jenkins.”
The unwilling housekeeper hurried away, and Anne looked at Gervase again. “Since you represent the late duke’s lawyers, you may stay here tonight, but the surrendering of my father’s ledgers is a matter to which I will have to give further thought. I trust you understand?”
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