Hi guys so they found the book and have read it, the question is what does Marmaduke mean?
"Miss Heliotrope, we need to talk" the girls shouted running around the house, till they found their Tutor (she is the tutor of both of them now and has the pleasure to bore them). They ran into one of the drawing rooms to find Miss Heliotrope sitting at the old oak table.
"Why girls what ever is the matter" she cried shocked at the flustered girls.
"What is Marmaduke talking about he said to ask you something,- that would shock me" Diamond almost shouted.
"It i-is um -" stuttered the old women
"WHAT IS IT WHAT IS SO TERRIBLE YOU CANT TELL ME!" Shouted a fed up Diamond.
"You-r um a M-M-Merryweather, um your father changed his name w-when he left. There was a um uh fight and your father left Moonacre filled with um anger and I um went with him promising your uncle to look after him and you he um took you with him and um i got a uh letter 2 weeks latter saying your mum had um got um married and um left to um live uh in A-Australia." she stuttered completely afraid that Diamond would be unhappy and she definitely was.
"HOW COULD YOU KEEP THIS FROM ME I ALWAYS ASKED WHERE SHE WAS WHO SHE WAS AND ALL YOU SAID WAS SHE WAS AWAY AND WOULD COME BACK IN A FEW YEARS" Cried Diamond hurt obvious in her voice as she stormed out of the manor and straight into the forest.
1 hour later
"Diamond, its not Miss Heliotropes fault" cried Eleanor as she searched for her friend well actually cousin through the forest.
"Well boys looks like we have ourselves a Merryweather or should I say princess" said a voice from behind her. She slowly turned around to see a group of De Noirs
"What do you want"
"Well my father is just dying to make your acquaintance" smirked the boy who looked to be the leader of the group.
"Well I am not going with you" she said stubbornness hinted in her voice
"How stubborn of you, oh well, BOYS GET HER!" he smirked as he grinned at the boys behind him. Two boys one with light blonde hair and deep green eyes and the other with black spiked hair and deep sea blue eyes grabbed the young girls arms and started to drag her away. Only to turn around at the fact they are going the wrong way they trudged into the clearing as Robin was about to call the idiots back. But as they started to go the right way a young girl with blond waist length hair and crystal blue hypnotizing eyes jumped out of the tree.
"Well what do we have here you handing yourself in how nice of you" smirked Robin
"Let my cousin go" she growled.
"Or what" the boy growled back.
"This" she said as she winded him and bruised his shin. Two boys she noticed from last time one who she remembered well for breaking his nose ran at her she knocked both out in a second kicking one in the face for fun, a good way to show her the boys were no match but then she turned around to see Robin with a knife at Eleanor's throat.
"Hand your self over without a fight and I won't kill her" he hissed. With that said she let the boys that were left tie her hands up and push her forward.
After a while the silence was broken by the sound of horses galloping towards them. A group of black stallions with leather clad riders stopped in front of them, as the man at the front took a metal helmet to reveal a man with black hair and a beard he also had an old scar right across his face.
"For once you have done something useful" he said to Robin as he looked at the two girls.
"What happened to them" he said confusion in his voice as he looked at the two boys one with mud splattered up his face and the other with blood coating his face.
"That witch did it" they growled pointing at Diamond.
"You can't call me a witch cause I beat you up and maybe if you were a good fighter that wouldn't of happened" she laughed not caring about the place she was in. Before she had even recovered a sack was flung over her head sending her into darkness. She could hear Eleanor cry out in surprise as the same thing happened to her. At one point Diamond and Eleanor must have fallen asleep as they woke up to be in a stone cold cell. At the sound of laughter the girls scrambled to their feet and stood in the shadows. As they heard the cell door creak open and the gang they had beaten earlier flopped in the stench of alcohol in the air, Proving they were drunken fools they walked up to the girls and grabbed their arms as they stumbled out the cell. They soon found them selves in servant courters and were pushed to the ground with brushes and a bucket of water. They scrubbed the floor for what seemed like hours until a maid came up to them and told them to sit.
"I am sorry do not blame me but Coeur De'noir told me that um you would be um servants. But don't worry I shall look after you I would help you escape but I have kids here and if I did you would find me and my kids beheaded the next day. I am ever so sorry" she whispered as she gave the girls some bowles of soup and bread.