“How clever of you to know the very latest vogue from Paris!” Jabina exclaimed.
“We’re not behind the times in England,” Mrs. Dangerfield replied reprovingly, “in fact I’ve always believed, ma’am, that it’s the English Ladies of Quality who create the fashions and not the wife of that monster and murderer!”
Jabina knew that Bonaparte had been depicted for years as an ogre who would not be above turning cannibal if it suited him!
She repressed a desire to say that she had found France very sophisticated and civilised, knowing that Mrs. Dangerfield would not understand.
‘People believe what they want to believe,’ Jabina told herself and almost instantly her thoughts went back to the Duke.
He wanted to believe in austerity! He wanted the quiet uneventful life he had chosen for himself.
