CHAPTER EIGHTThe Duke and Duchess of Roehampton crossed the Channel the following morning.
It was like being Royalty, Cornelia thought, as a group of Officials in top hats and gold braid escorted them aboard the Channel Steamer.
The cabin-de-luxe was decorated with flowers and Stewards stood waiting for orders. Cornelia was a good sailor but, when the Duke announced that he was going to walk about on deck, she felt that she must stay in the cabin as was obviously expected of her.
Ornate baskets of orchids and carnations and a bottle of champagne, which the Steward brought and opened “on His Grace’s instructions”, were no consolation for being alone when she could have been outside seeing what was happening.
For, distraught and upset as she was by her private affairs, Cornelia could not
