CHAPTER FIVEVanora heard the guests arriving the next afternoon.
They chatted as they walked from the hall up to the drawing room.
She wondered if amongst them there was anyone as beautiful as the lady whom Lady Sophie had mentioned as the Earl’s last love in London.
She found herself thinking about it when she should have been sorting out the books.
Had the Earl missed her when he had returned to Scotland? Had he any intention of going back to London to be with her?
She wondered if the lady in question was clever as well as beautiful.
The more she had talked to the Earl, the more she realised how well read he was.
She was aware too that he had a ‘third eye’ which made him see deep inside the person he was speaking to.
Once or twice when they were having a discussion, she realised
