She added the last words almost desperately.
“You must move into the Dower House at once,” he said abruptly, “in case other people call on me, which they undoubtedly will.”
“But perhaps, if I could stay here in The Castle, we could find – a suitable chaperone,” Georgina suggested in a frightened little voice. “It’s my home and I will not know – what to do entirely alone.”
She thought as she spoke that, if she once left The Castle, Alister would not want her to be involved in any way with the estate.
She would then have nothing to do and the whole idea was terrifying.
“Now let me make this quite clear,” Alister said in a cold hard voice she had not heard before. “I had, as you know, an extremely unhappy marriage. I was pressured into it when I was very young by members of the family wh
