The Earl contemplated telling Lord Yaxley what had happened and then thought that the fewer people who knew of what had occurred the easier it would be for Calista.
For it to become known that she had been found asleep in his bed would bring down on her head the severest censure of the Grandes Dames of the Social world.
There was also, the Earl knew, a large number of younger and more beautiful women who would be only too delighted to defame and pillory someone who had actually captured the Elusive Earl as they had been unable to do.
He was quite certain that Lady Chevington would by this time have sworn Lord George Bentinck and Lord Palmerston to secrecy and anyway they were gentlemen and would know that they must be careful of what they said about a young girl.
“Pray Heaven it does n
