“As well I know!” the Marquis repeated.
“You’ll find plenty here to keep you busy, if you look for it,” Nanny said. “And when you have time, find out about Miss Idylla. If there’s one thing I dislike, it’s a mystery!”
“That is exactly what I intend to do,” the Marquis answered and went downstairs.
He had not missed the fact that Nanny had prefaced her patient’s name with the respectful ‘Miss’.
He was well aware that this was something he should intimate to the rest of the household and, when he reached the hall, he said to the butler,
“I know you will be glad to hear, Newman, that Nanny has discovered the Christian name of our visitor.”
“Indeed, my Lord?”
“It is Idylla and you may inform the household that in the future the young lady upstairs will be referred to by everyone as ‘Mis
