“It – it was kind of you to – let me sleep in this – beautiful room,” she said, “but now – you should go.”
“Why should I do that?” the Earl asked.
“Because it is – wrong for you to be here – very wrong!”
The Earl smiled.
“That is a subject we disagree about and I think, Donela, as you are very lovely, you must allow me to tell you so and, of course, kiss you goodnight.”
Donela gave a little cry of horror.
“No – no! Of course – you cannot– do that! Please go – away – at once!”
The Earl looked at her in surprise.
It certainly sounded as if that was what she wanted. At the same time he could not believe that anyone who performed with Basil Banks would not have been expecting this to happen.
“I think,” he said in a voice that most women found irresistible, “that you are angry with me
