Chapter 46

“She knows this forest as well as I do,” said the girl, shaking her head.

Reginald looked at me. I looked at him. Then both of us looked at the girl.

“I know,” I said. “How about we help you look for her?” I realised then I didn’t know the girl’s name. “What’s your name?”

“Helen.”

“We can help you, Helen. Would you like that? We’ll help and when we find her, we’ll bring her home.” I was only too pleased to have something purposeful to do.

Helen’s face lit up. “Really? You’d do that for me?”

Reginald was grinning. “Of course, we would. Now you run along home and we’ll locate the whereabouts of your Rosalind for you.”

“Rosamond,” I whispered.

“Your Rosamond,” Reginald said with a bow.

“My family and I would be ever so grateful. We live just over the rise,” said Helen pointing. “But I’m not going to give up looking. My parents are elderly, but they’ve offered to do my chores while I search for my sister.”