Chapter fiveAlecia sat in her bedroom, forcing herself not to burst into tears, as she wished to do.
She felt as if she had suddenly been drawn into a whirlpool and was being spun round and round until she could not think.
All she was conscious of was the dread that everything she might say or do would be wrong and Charis would suffer because of it.
She could not imagine what Charis would think when she read of her engagement to Lord Kiniston, unless she understood that it was subterfuge forced upon her in order to play for time.
It was all so complicated and so frightening that Alecia could only sit with her hands over her face trembling until she realised that it was nearly luncheontime and it would seem strange if she did not appear.
She was frightened of the questions that those s
