CHAPTER FOURAfter breakfast was finished, the Duke left for a number of meetings that he could not avoid.
As soon as he had gone, Nelita asked Benson to order her a carriage.
“I am calling on a friend,” she told him, “and I may or may not be back for luncheon.”
“That be all right, miss,” Benson replied. “We’ll have something ready if you turns up.”
Annie came downstairs dressed as she always did when she accompanied Nelita in her bonnet with black ribbons tied under her chin.
As it was a lovely day, the carriage hood was down and they drove in the sunshine towards Belgrave Square where Katie lived.
She had become a friend of Nelita’s when she was staying with Lady Marshbanks and of all the girls she had met when she was in London, Nelita liked Katie the best.
In a way she felt rathe
