It didn’t take Linda long to warm to the young boy and to discern that he was afraid of his uncle. However prosaic or dreary my new job might be, at least I had come back to the country I had persisted in regarding as my home.’Īrriving at the Château Valmy in Savoy, Linda found that her young charge was a reserved, lonely child, heir to a large estate kept in trust by his uncle after the boy’s parents died. ‘Those sweet, those stinging memories…things I had never before noticed, never missed, until now I saw them unchanged, part and parcel of that life that stopped nine years ago…I was back in France that much of the dream of the past nine years had come true. When she was offered a position in France as governess to nine year old Philippe, Comte de Valmy, she jumped at the opportunity to go back to the country she loved. When she was fourteen both of her parents were killed in a plane crash and she was sent to an orphanage in England where she remained for seven years. With an English father and a French mother, she had grown up in France during the Second World War. Linda Martin was back in Paris after an absence of nine years.
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