Chapter 9‘I must be mad to do this,’ Aria told herself a little while later, as Dart Huron, with an easily assumed solitude, led her out onto the terrace where the photographers were waiting to photograph them.
He had been interviewing them alone for some time and, having stuck to his story that she was not feeling well, had insisted, so he had told her, that she should only pose for one photograph and not be subjected to any questioning.
“I was very firm that we were not ready to answer questions,” he said. “I have told them that the engagement will be announced in due course and they will learn all they wish to know.”
When she had eaten the breakfast he brought her from the morning room and was sitting alone after he had left her to talk to the reporters, Aria wished over and over aga
