Chapter Eight
Lord Pelton remembers and Agatha is rampant
The irony in the butler’s attempt to impersonate Pelton and Giggs trying to pass herself off as a man was that they were following Pelton’s own path of deception and disguise.
Lord Pelton had an identity unknown to everyone.
Trussed up in the attic, Thomas Pelton looked back to the halcyon days when he’d first seen Francesca in the chorus line of a company performing at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. From that first moment, he knew that if he could possess her he had the power to bring her fame and fortune as a great dancer.
Even in the chorus line she stood out.
There was a lightness of step that distinguished her though her talent was raw and undeveloped.
Pelton’s confidence that he could bring about the transformation wa
