She wondered how many people would bring pressure on the Duke not to dispose of the books now they had been found.
Then she thought if he did sell them it would be quite easy for her Trustees to buy them back on her behalf. And, of course, they would have to tell her father.
All the same ever since she arrived home, Oletha, having seen the Duke, had known that he was the last man on Earth who would wish to be labelled a fortune-hunter.
It suddenly struck her that, instead of being unconcerned by learning that the woman he wanted to marry was not a poor Curator’s daughter but an immensely rich heiress, he might resent it.
Almost as if someone had now thrown a bucket of cold water over her, she found herself remembering how her father had said to her that ‘no decent Englishman’ would eve
