The Colonel congratulated him in a long speech at a dinner party and everyone present drank his health.
It was, however, impossible for him not to accept some of the many invitations he received from the Beau Monde.
Almost before he was aware of it, he found himself attracted by another beauty.
She had just been acclaimed by the King as one of the most beautiful women that he had ever seen and the Viscount had to admit that he thought the same.
The Countess Walton was indeed extremely lovely and the exact opposite to Sybil. She had fair hair and blue eyes and was a perfect English beauty with just a little extra that made her somehow unique.
It seemed surprising to the Viscount that he had not met her before and then he learned that she had been in mourning for her husband who had die
