Chapter SevenAnthea continued to play the piano until she heard her brother’s voice and then Charles Torrington’s greeting the Marquis in the other room.
She waited until she thought that Haynes would have brought chairs for them so that they were seated opposite the Marquis.
Then, as she stopped playing, she heard the Marquis say to Haynes,
“Ask Miss Brooke to join us.”
She came in from the boudoir uncomfortably aware that Harry was scowling. She dared not look at him, but sat down in a chair beside him, conscious that her heart was beating frantically because she was frightened.
“I have asked you to come here, Colnbrooke,” the Marquis said, speaking directly to Harry, “because I think that you should be informed of the brilliant way that your sister saved my life.”
Harry did not sp
