Chapter TenLord Corbury drove into Brighton late in the afternoon, tooling his four horses with an expertise which made a number of people turn round and stare at him in admiration.
He had been agreeably surprised to find such a perfect team of chestnuts in the stables at Corbury House in Grosvenor Square, and knew that they would undoubtedly be the envy of his friends.
He drove up with a flourish to the best hotel on the Marine Parade and demanded a suite of rooms with such an authoritative air and was obviously of such consequence that the proprietor without a qualm of conscience handed over to him the rooms he had been keeping for the Earl of Dorchester.
Having changed his clothes, Lord Corbury proceeded to Lord Farquhar’s house on the Steine and asked to see Miss Fenella Lambert.
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