. I take my shoes off before I go into the house, I sneak up the stairs, I get undressed in the bathroom. . Read more The annexe had become a lot emptier while they had been talking and now there was just a few new arrivals at the food table and some flirtatious couples draped on the scattered chaise longues. She had a sudden urge to find Charlotte and quickly left the oasis, making her way back to the main hall where she enquired after her friend from one of the Windlesham’s vast number of servants