“Well, his Lordship won’t be far behind,” Eudora said. “You can speak with him tonight, you can ask him if I have not told you the truth.”
“Oh, I could not,” Serena said, her cheeks burning suddenly at the thought.
“Why not?” Eudora asked. “It’s not difficult to speak of anythin’ to a man you are wed to.”
“I wonder. I think it would be very difficult to speak of some things,” Serena answered more to herself than to Eudora.
And then suddenly she was conscious of the singing within her heart, a feeling as if a dark shadow, which had pressed down upon her, was lifted and had gone.
How silly she had been not to make sure! And yet, how could she have known?
Seeing La Flamme there at Vulcan House, seeing her beside Justin and so obviously at her ease with him had seemed indisputable eviden
