“That is very sensible of you,” the Duke remarked.
“As I like going abroad quite often,” the Marquis added, “I find it convenient not to have to leave London so early or arrive in Dover so late, so my ‘half-way house’, as I call it, comes in very useful.”
“I am sure it does, Ian, and I am sorry about Natalie but, of course, she has been in a flurry to get everything ready so as to go away with you.”
“I understand,” the Marquis said, “and I shall be glad of a good night’s sleep. I have had a great deal to do since I left Ascot.”
He did not say that the reason he had not slept the night before was simply because he had been worrying as to what Peony would do next.
What was even more worrying, he had received a note from her saying that she expected them to be dining together that night.
