C3 Chapter 3

Finding Askinge was easy. The estate was new – not as big as Aunt Ursula’s, but certainly impressive.

Tancred was cordially greeted by Mr. and Mrs. Holzenstern and their daughter Stella, who still looked like a wax doll in her yellow-white dress.

‘I must be very careful not to exaggerate my visits here’, he thought, concerned. ‘The mother seems intent on marrying away her daughter