CHAPTER SIXThe Duke was awake for a considerable part of the night worrying over Verena, trying to decide how he could induce her to go to London, at the same time wondering whether it was really wise for her to do so.
It was, although he did not realise it, the first time he had ever been seriously concerned about someone else’s difficulties that did not directly affect his own comfort or contentment.
He awoke in the morning to find himself irritated by the knowledge that he still had no solution to the problem.
Fate, however, was to make the decision for him!
Having told Travers the night before that he would get up early the next morning and come downstairs, the servant arrived with a jug of hot shaving water as soon as the Duke had finished breakfast.
Having shaved the Duke in a m
