At the same time he could not help thinking a little cynically that he had just spent his last bachelor party in what might be described as ‘style’.
He wondered if he would ever see Lady Rosemary again.
She had certainly lifted him for a moment with a flame of passion that most men would find irresistible.
‘I should be grateful to her,’ the Earl thought.
However he really had no wish to see her again.
It took him a little time to fall asleep.
The menace of what was going to happen so soon was beginning to prey on his mind.
*
The Earl awoke at six o’clock when the troops were roused and the whole barracks seemed to come alive like a beehive, so he closed his eyes and tried to return to his dreamless sleep.
However sleep was impossible and he could only think of what lay ahead of hi
