They advanced towards him and all three girls curtseyed almost simultaneously.
“Your Grace, may I present my sisters?” Andrina asked and she could not keep the triumph out of her voice.
“This is Cheryl – and this is Sharon!”
The sisters curtseyed again.
Then Sharon said impulsively,
“This is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to us! And you look exactly as a Duke should look!”
“And how is that?” the Duke asked.
“Very grand and very impressive!” Sharon answered. “I should like to see you wearing your coronet!”
“Perhaps you will have that privilege on another occasion,” the Duke replied with a twist of his lips.
Andrina knew that he was being sarcastic.
At the same time she had been watching closely when she effected the introduction and she had not missed the expressio
