CHAPTER SIXIf Madelina had hoped that her last exchange with de Burge would herald a new chapter in their relations, she was to be disappointed.
Although she saw him at breakfast and dinner and encountered him in the garden or strolling through the art galleries of Belmont, she never saw him alone.
Lady Kitty was his constant companion with her own ideas about how she and he were to occupy their time.
It was clear that she was deliberately monopolising de Burge’s attention to such a degree that he would have had to be downright rude to avoid her.
And it did not help that Madelina herself was never unattended. Mrs. Winston stuck like a burr to her and the Duke made himself always available.
She could not shake them off and she began to feel just like a prisoner. There was no way of lea
