CHAPTER FOURMrs. Dawson had excelled herself with the dinner and Georgina knew that she must have been thinking it out for days before Alister arrived.
Every course was a delight, not only to the tongue but to the eye.
However, she realised that he was not particularly impressed, but at the same time he was enjoying his food.
She asked him to tell her about the countries he had visited. He did so, but in an off-hand way as if he thought that she would not be interested in any detail.
But because Georgina realised only too well that she must be quiet, gentle and appreciative of everything he did, good or bad, she talked in a low feminine voice.
Although her questions to him were intelligent, she was careful to make it appear that she was a pupil at the foot of a Master.
When the last
