“That is what I have been frightened of all morning, but I think that with the Marquis’s help it will now be plain sailing.”
While they were talking, the Marquis was aware that Locadi was gazing at him and there was an expression in her eyes which disturbed him.
He knew she was harbouring a hundred questions to ask him.
The first being why he had not come to her room last night.
As they finished luncheon he was wondering desperately how he could avoid being alone with her, as she was so obviously determined that he should be.
Finally when they left the dining room, he appealed to Flora,
“I suppose you could not have us to dinner with you tonight?
Flora looked at him in surprise.
“Are you really asking yourself to dine with Papa and me?”
“I am asking if I could bring my grandmother
