“And where is that place?”
“Where could it be but Mount Olympus?”
She thought that she was being rather clever in preventing him from being too inquisitive but the Earl stated,
“You cannot expect me to be content with such an imprecise address, but it is something we can talk about later.”
“I want to help Mr. Archer.”
“Why? What does he mean to you?” the Earl enquired.
“I am sorry for him.”
As she spoke, she thought that perhaps she had taken the wrong line.
The Earl might be the type of man who liked success and was interested in obtaining only the best.
Perhaps, she thought, in trying to help Mr. Archer, she might have done him a disservice, in that the Earl, with all his money, would wish to employ only those entertainers who could command a large audience and a high fee elsewh
