‘I have lost him!’ Oletha told herself, ‘I have lost him!’
She saw the Duke laughing and talking with his friends and was aware that he had not once looked at her since the first moment she had arrived.
She had at first been so stunned by the fact that he appeared not to recognise her that she walked into the salon as if she was in a dream and it was just impossible to think of what she should say or what she was doing.
How could it be possible that, after all he had said, after he had told her that she was his for all Eternity, that he could fail to recognise her or could deliberately treat her as if she was a stranger who he had never seen before?
Then, as she moved further down the salon with her father to where there was a group of people he wished to meet, she recognised one of th
