Because her father had always talked about his successes on the turf, Ilouka knew a great deal about horses.
She suspected that her contemporaries knew very little about the Classic races, but were frightened to ride anything that was not quiet and docile.
They also had no interest in Politics and one girl to whom she talked even confessed that she had no idea who was the Prime Minister and had never heard of the Reform Bill!
‘I find them extremely boring,’ Ilouka thought to herself scornfully.
Then she wondered if that was what the Earl felt about her.
Apart from the fact of loving him, she knew that he was an extremely intelligent man and because she had searched all the newspapers for every mention of his name, she found that he frequently spoke in the House of Lords and was an aut
