Then she could only think of the woman who had been so pleased to see him and who was with him now.
If she was someone he admired, then, of course, he would go to her for comfort.
It was nearly an hour later, although it seemed to Isa as if it was a century, that she heard the door next to her close.
She then knew Lord Lanwood had retired to bed on his own,
*
As it happened he had had considerable difficulty in persuading Rose-Marie that he was tired and so could not go to her bedroom as she suggested so provocatively.
“I have a great deal to do early tomorrow morning,” he said. “I am sure you will understand that as pleased as I am to see you, my dear, I need my beauty sleep.”
“I could give you so much more than sleep,” Rose-Marie whispered.
“I know that, I know it only too well,”
