Chapter FourLavina looked round the Dining-Room.
She thought it was the most beautiful room she had ever seen.
It was of Adam’s green picked out in white and gold.
The marble mantelpiece was exquisitely sculpted with Greek maidens holding up the shelf.
The silver glittered on the table and she thought no one could look more attractive or more exciting than Katherine and the other girls.
To her surprise the Marquis, who had arranged the seating, had put Millicent on his right and her on his left.
Lavina smiled a little to herself at his choice of Millicent.
Being a Duke’s daughter she would have sat there by right if he had known who she really was.
It was astonishing that he should have chosen her to sit on his left.
She did not realise that the contrast between Millicent’s sophis
