CHAPTER FIVEBy the time her carriage had reached the end of the drive Lady Dilys was shaking with anger.
She could not believe it possible that the Marquis had not prevented her from leaving.
On other occasions she had threatened a dramatic exit to gain her own way and had always been prevented from leaving at the last moment.
Once, she remembered, the gentleman in question had run after her coach and sprang into it when it was actually moving quite quickly to seat himself beside the fair charmer who had captured his heart.
On that occasion she had allowed the carriage to travel for nearly a mile before she had with a well-simulated reluctance given orders for her horses to be turned round.
Incredibly the Marquis had not followed her and she had the uncomfortable feeling that she migh
