“So you went to Italy?”
“No, I decided I would start my search in France because my perception, which you and I both believe in, told me that it was the right thing to do.”
He kissed her forehead again before he continued,
“By then I already knew who you really are.”
“How – could you have – known that?”
The Marquis smiled.
“Everybody at Marizon was talking about the dreadful accident that had just befallen our nearest neighbour, the Earl of Kingsclere.”
Imeldra raised her face and the Marquis went on,
“You forget, my darling, that I own racehorses and, since your father’s horses invariably beat mine, everything that happens to him is of vital interest to my grooms, my trainers and in fact everybody in the house from the new pantry boy to my housekeeper, who I really believe occasio
