Chapter NineIt was when Candida had been at Underhill for a little over a week that she came back from Retley to find Miss Cara Benevent in her room. Something had been said about going to a cinema with Derek, but in the end she lunched with Stephen, and by the time Derek turned up she thought perhaps they had better go home. She didn’t really like the way that things were shaping. She told him so as they drove through the rain.
‘They’ll think I’ve been lunching with you.’
He gave her a charming smile.
‘Darling, can I help what they think?’
‘Of course you can! You don’t say so outright, but you pull things round so that it looks as if we were going to be together—and I tell you straight out, Derek, it’s got to stop.’
‘Darling, you have only to say, “Dear Aunts, I cannot tell a lie. I
