“I hope you will not be too hard on them.”
“I shall be hard only on those who have no right to come here from Nice and teach my foolish boys the cut-throat methods that are so prevalent in that dissolute town.”
There was a note of anger beneath his words and Selina knew that he was deeply perturbed that the men whom he looked on as children should be led astray.
“I am coming with you to Monte Carlo to speak to le Préfet de Police. I intend to do everything I can to prevent a reoccurrence of what happened to you last night.”
“We are very grateful for your kindness to us,” the Duke said. “I have never been quite certain that sanctuary when it was asked of the Church would be forthcoming, but now I have no further doubts.”
“I am glad of that, Your Grace.”
“That is why,” the Duke continu
