“That is what I thought. The older gentlemen began to take money off him and I did the same.”
“Did I hear you say that you won nearly two thousand pounds or was I still asleep?”
“You heard me,” Shane answered. “And by that time, as you can imagine, it was growing very late. In fact it was only about an hour ago that we finished playing.”
“What about my aunt?”
“I had a strong idea that she was perturbed over the Prince’s behaviour. She came in several times to ask him if he would join the dancers in the ballroom, but he refused and ignored anything else she had to say. Then, when she suggested that he should say ‘goodnight’ to his guests, he told her to do it for him.”
“He usually has such impeccably good manners.”
“Tonight he refused to leave the gambling table and did not even rise
