CHAPTER ELEVENLord Wye awoke in one of his moods.
“When ’is Lordship has a fit of the sullens,” his valet said to Mrs. Maltravers, “I keeps me mouth shut and says nothin’.”
Breakfast was eaten in gloomy silence and then Lord Wye hurried out of the house as if he had an important engagement.
As a matter of fact he was not due at Carlton House until noon, but he was anxious not to see Elvina and he wished, above all things, not to face up to the question that hovered at the back of his mind and which, try as he could, he could not evade.
It was a hot day with a sultry warmth that made the streets seem almost stifling.
Most of the Beau Monde had already left London for their country seats but, owing to the news from Spain, the Prince Regent was still at Carlton House so as to be in close
