She was speaking to herself, but she was saying the words which had been in her mind from the very moment that she had first seen the Earl on the Liner carrying them back to England.
‘I need a grand title,’ Lady Carisford said to herself, ‘and who could be more attractive or socially acceptable than the Earl of Hollington?’
Because she was very rich and because she was in her own way rather pretty, she had attracted quite a number of men from the time that she had ‘come out’.
Women had always been attracted to her father who had been the Marquis of Melchester.
As he was well-off, his daughter, when she ‘came out’ had the grandest balls and parties given for her at their country seat almost every weekend.
It was only when her father died that his daughter had to leave the home she had
