“Shall I also – write a letter to – my aunt?”
Felicita asked the question hesitatingly.
As he was looking at her, it was difficult to think for herself. She wanted only to please him and do what he wanted.
“Just a few words,” he conceded.
She sat down at the desk that he had just vacated and wrote,
“Please forgive me if I have done anything that you might not approve of, but the Marques is very persuasive and I don’t know how to refuse him.”
She wrote the letter in French and signed her name and then she put what she had written quickly into an envelope.
He smiled at her and walked towards the door to open it for her.
She went down the hall and saw Pedro and the Marques handed him the two notes.
“Give these to the Duchesse as soon as she wakes,” he said in a voice of authority.
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