Perhaps she could try to do for him what Julia had done. Surely, Julia didn’t have some magic power that had made Richard the Merry Marquis. He had been that way before he met her. Teresa had heard about his antics and how all the other young men would copy his lead. So what was that Julia had done for him? Made him feel comfortable? Give him self-confidence? She could that.
He had already begun by himself to be the Merry Marquis, even though he had said that it was an act. It should be easy to show him that it need not be. All he needed was the security to know that he could be himself.
If he could give her the confidence she needed to become a social success, why could she not do the same for him? Teresa was determined to do this for him.
WHEN THEY REACHED home, Teresa gave orders to
