Chapter Six“I will leave you gentlemen to your port.”
Sorilda rose from the dining room table as she spoke and, as the Earl and Peter Lansdown rose too, she smiled at them and walked towards the door.
There was a scrabble from under the table and a brown and white spaniel hurried after her.
As they both left the room, Peter Lansdown said to the Earl,
“I notice that Drake follows your wife everywhere.”
“As he used to follow me!” the Earl replied. “So much for loyalty from what is called ‘man’s best friend’!”
“He has certainly now become a woman’s most ardent admirer!” Peter Lansdown smiled as he reseated himself at the table, “and he is not the only one.”
The Earl glanced at him sharply.
“What do you mean by that remark!”
“Merely that with your usual astounding good luck, Sholto, a
