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We turned to see Lady Jane leaving the landing and coming to us.
“I thought a walk would be the thing,” she suggested.
I could see she definitely did, currently wearing outdoors gear that would keep any countess warm in style as she strolled her country estate.
“I thought you two might want to join me, but I love you found Alice and Wolf,” she finished.
She stopped at us and gazed contentedly at the picture.
And then she shared, “Adelaide had this commissioned. It’s one of my favorites in the house.”
It felt like a bolt hit me at learning this news.
Which was why I sounded strangled when I asked, “Adelaide?”
She made no note of the tone of my voice when she turned my way and nodded. “Yes. Adelaide. There are those who say this is less Alice and Wolf and more her and Augustus. She was indeed blonde, but he dark. But it’s more than just his hair color. It doesn’t look a thing like them.”
It didn’t, though there was a bit of Augustus in Wolf, which would not be right in reality, since Augustus would be the descendent of Cuthbert, not Wolf.
“Do you know much about Alice and Wolf?” I asked.
The penetrating look she turned on me had my heart skipping a beat.
“Every countess knows of Alice and Wolf.”
“What do you know?” I pushed.
She tipped her head to the side in that way of hers. “Has Ian spoken of them?”
“He said they didn’t get along.”
She turned back to the picture. “Yes, that is the story.”
Though she said it like it wasn’t the story.
“They look pretty happy here,” I noted leadingly.
“Yes,” she agreed.
But she said no more.
“I—” I began to coax further out of her.
However, I got nothing more out because we all went still when we heard a scuttling in the wall.
“Where are the men?” I whispered.
“With Richard in the Whisky Room,” Lady Jane whispered back.
“You’re sure?”
“I just popped in to tell them I was going to find you and go out.”
I turned to her. “Where’s the entry into this wall?”
She’d never looked motherly at all.
She did when she started, “Daphne—”
