CHAPTER EIGHTAt the end of the week the late Lord Belmont was buried in the local Church, which was almost too small to accommodate such a large crowd. Nobody wanted to miss such a notable occasion as the funeral of a great aristocrat and extravagant personality.
Nor were they going to lose the chance to witness the hint of tasty scandal that had made itself known across the district.
It was said that the two brothers had tried to murder each other in a duel and only Lord Challoner hurling himself between them had averted that tragedy.
Nobody really believed the story, least of all those who knew Anthony and recalled what a cry-baby he had been all his life. A whiner and a sneak, so different from the handsome and upstanding Michael.
Rumours circulated that Lady Verna had confined her
