Rupert pushed him into a canter; with his huge stride he circled the school in seconds. nkling of palm trees, and the helicopters and aeroplanes overhead, all part of the largest security operation ever mounted in peacetime. Lavinia Greenslade’s grey, however, who’d been completely unhinged by the guns, crashed round the course, leaving it as though an earthquake had hit it. ”Rupert had expected sympathy, not reproach bordering on disapproval.
It was open. “Blast,” she said. “Jake’s after this,” said Fen, as a girl with a bun escaping from her hairnet came in on a mangy brown mare and proceeded to scatter every fence. Then she felt a desperate thud of disappointment.
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