Chapter Three“One thing you must realise,” Ingrid said, “is that Fabian will take no notice of you if he thinks you are a jeune fille.”
Loretta looked surprised and her cousin explained,
“It is the policy of all sophisticated men to ignore young girls, largely because they are afraid of being pressured into marriage if they so much as talk to one.”
She laughed before she went on,
“You can therefore imagine that the more sophisticated beauties, whichever side of the Channel they belong to, encourage this idea and I am sure that Fabian has never talked to a jeune fille unless she was a relation,”
“Then, if I am to talk to him as I want to, what am I to do?” Loretta asked a little helplessly.
She was lying back against the pillows of an exceedingly comfortable bed, which was draped with
