Chapter FiveWhen Nerissa came downstairs before dinner to join the house party, she was feeling embarrassed.
She wished that she could stay in her room and not have to face the Duke again, feeling that he would condemn her for being so foolish as to have gone into a sitting room alone with Sir Montague.
She knew that she would never be able to explain how difficult it would have been to refuse without making a scene.
And yet the scene that had ensued had been worse than anything that she could have anticipated and she felt humiliated by it.
She had chosen another of Delphine’s pretty gowns, this time of a pale blue gauze, and Mary had procured for her some small white orchids with touches of pink on their petals to wear in her hair.
They were so pretty that Nerissa could not help feel
