‘Please take me! Please – please!’
He felt something almost like a thrill go through him and turned it into a shiver. Was he a monster that he could feel like this for a mere child?
Someone came in through the door at the end of the room. He heard his own name mentioned and looked up to see the handsome rather bored face of Peregrine Howard.
He knew then that this was what he had been waiting for, the arrival of the woman he would marry and he had already spoken about her to the Prime Minister.
Lord Wye rose to his feet.
“You have travelled quickly, Peregrine.”
“Not as quickly as you.”
“When did you arrive?”
“About two hours ago. Cleone asked me to come and find you. She particularly wants to see you.”
“I am honoured by her thought.”
“She is at our aunt’s house in Curzon Street.
