Chapter FourThe Marquis called for Loretta at eight o’clock and, although she had a feeling that she was being foolish, she was waiting extremely excitedly for him to take her out to dinner.
When Ingrid heard that he had invited her, she exclaimed,
“I thought that he was being very attentive at luncheon, but are you really wise to go on with this masquerade? After all, you have now seen him and you know what he is like. Surely that is enough?”
Loretta knew as she spoke that her cousin was very apprehensive.
Having seen the Marquis , she could now understand so much better than she had before why Ingrid was worried about her.
At luncheon she had, as the only other lady present, been seated on the Earl’s right, and since Fabian de Sauerdun was on his left, she was facing him across the
