CHAPTER TWOThe Colonel of the Regiment was delighted to see the Earl, who had known him only slightly when he had been in the Army and he found an old comrade-in-arms, Captain Charles Stuart, who took the Earl into the Officers’ Mess.
There were a number of young Officers whom the Earl had not met and just two whom he had known in the last year before he had resigned his commission.
They all welcomed him in a most friendly manner and when he sat down to dinner with them he was enjoying every moment.
Half way through the meal Captain Charles told him that he and three other Officers were going to a party at Lady G’s and he must come with them.
“Lady G?” the Earl queried, “who is that?”
“She is always known simply as Lady G,” Captain Charles explained. “You do not know who she is?”
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