CHAPTER SEVENLord Hartcourt returned to the Embassy late on Monday afternoon. He had spent Sunday in the country in an ancient Château.
He enjoyed the company of his French friends and he had been annoyed to find that on this occasion they had other English visitors besides himself.
He had met Lady Roehampton several times before in England, but he had not expected to find her in Paris or that she should be accompanied by her debutante daughter.
Lord Hartcourt had not been a few hours at the Château before he realised all too clearly that Lady Roehampton looked on him as a very desirable son-in-law. She was charming and no one knew better how to charm than Lady Roehampton, who had been a great beauty in her time, but on this occasion she was doing her best to attract Lord Hartcourt not
