“Why do you not go back to where you have come from? Why have you come here upsetting everything and persuading Drogo Kiniston to marry you when he has often sworn that he would never marry? What hold have you over him? Can it be possible you are blackmailing him?”
The words seemed to spill out of Lady Lillian’s crimson lips and almost as if she threatened her with physical violence, Alecia took a step back.
“I am sorry, Lady Lillian,” she said again, “but I do not think – I can help you. You must talk to Lord Kiniston and, of course, I can say only that I will do – anything he asks me to do.”
As she finished speaking she turned, opened her bedroom door and went into the passage.
She thought she heard Lady Lillian murmur something, but she was not certain what it was.
All she wanted w
