“You cad!” she said. “You ungrateful beast! When I have given up everything for you.”
“What have you given up?” Lord Niall asked derisively. “Your return to England? You know as well as I do that you have no desire to go back. Who cares for or is interested in the widow of a Scottish Duke – especially one without wealth? My father was none too generous to you, I admit that, but while you live here, you can save every penny of your allowance. In England you would have to put your hand in your pocket, and you would hate that, for you are mean as well as jealous, as I have discovered all too often.”
“Mean?” the Duchess said, shaking now as if with an ague. “Mean? When I have poured out my money on spies for you, spies paid to follow Ewan to England, to Edinburgh, to France! Do you think tho
