Chapter 24
When Friday night came and Katherine was ready to get into the taxi with Miss Gwendoline d'Estaire, she felt exalted as she had never done in her life. This evening would be the test of her powers-If she failed, then she would know that such high goals were not for her, and so she must curtail her aspirations. But she would not fail. It might be that the Duke would not be drawn to her-it was impossible to tell from that one afternoon what his temperament could be-but at all costs she must not fail in being a cultivated lady, a guest among equals, and so to take at least that place in his regard. There was something almost diabolically whimsical in the fact that one passionate would-be lover was deliberately arranging that his lady should meet a possible rival! Gerard Strobridge appreciat
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