“I wanted you, Prunella, to come to London,” he said, “and broaden your horizons. But I suppose it is too soon to know if London by itself can do this for you, so perhaps we should find a different way of achieving the same thing.”
“I don’t – know what you are – talking about.”
“I am talking about love and, of course, your ignorance of it.”
“I am not ashamed of being ignorant, my Lord, if it makes people behave in – a deceitful underhand way.”
“And how would you behave in the same circumstances?”
“I would always do – what is right.”
The Earl laughed softly.
“You are so very positive and still so aggressive and yet I find it attractive because you are so different from anyone I ever met before.”
“By that I understand you to mean that you have met – some very strange people.”
“Of co
