CHAPTER FOURElfa came slowly out of her bedroom to walk down the stairs to where she knew that her father would be waiting for her in the hall.
She was wondering if he would notice that her Wedding gown was not conventional, but, as he was still regretting so bitterly that it was not Caroline who he was escorting, she thought it was unlikely that he would even look at her.
When she had gone with her mother to London to buy her trousseau, she had been quite determined that she would purchase things that she knew suited her and not the gowns that she would be expected to buy as a bride.
She had thought very carefully over the impression she must make as the Duke’s wife.
She was well aware that his friends would be surprised that, when he had the choice of the two sisters, he should not h
