“You are misinformed,” she said. “Your brother is not spending his money on me at the moment, but on someone else.”
She saw that Lionel Stevington was surprised, but also interested.
“I thought you had his Lordship thoroughly tied up.”
“So did I,” Lady Dilys replied, “but I was mistaken.”
“You amaze me,” Lionel remarked.
“It has amazed me too,” Lady Dilys agreed. “But I thought you should be the first to know, since it concerns you so closely, that your brother is in danger of being lured into matrimony with a young girl.”
“Matrimony?”
Lionel Stevington stiffened.
Lady Dilys knew that he had never imagined that there was any likelihood of such a union between herself and the Marquis.
“Yes, matrimony, for it is unlikely that he could offer any other position to Sir Charles Lingfiel
