Michael roared with laughter.
“I think that he has missed the point,” he spluttered when he could speak again. “You’re not supposed to be proud of a criminal record!”
“No, but if you’re Lord Challoner, you can afford to ignore convention,” countered Verna. “That is – I didn’t mean that to sound the way it did.”
“How did it sound?” Michael asked puzzled.
He had just been thinking that his father had always adopted a similar attitude and when he himself assumed the title, he would probably do the same.
“I am afraid that people who boast a title tend to assume they are rather superior to others,” she explained carefully. “Of course it isn’t true, but we do it too easily.”
“Are you trying to console me for my lack of a title?”
“Not exactly, I just didn’t want you to think – that is –
