“If he rode with you, my Lord, it’d do he a great deal more good than drivin’ about, as he does all the time nowadays with the lady they says he’s married secret like.”
She did not wait for the Earl to reply and added,
“But there! I shouldn’t be a-sayin’ such things to you! Me mouth always runs away with me!”
She went from the room, closing the door behind her and the Earl laughed.
“You see, people know all the gossip, even in the isolation of the Downs!”
“I thought Mrs. Fitzherbert was very charming and very courteous,” Sandra said, “but I suppose the ordinary people are shocked that His Royal Highness should spend so much time with her, when he actually has a wife.”
“And does it shock you?” the Earl asked.
Sandra felt it was a very uncomfortable question, considering that the Earl
