Chapter 10Lileth Schuster, sitting in front of the dressing table, scrutinised her face carefully in the mirror. The new cream she was using, although fantastically expensive, was not achieving the results she had expected. The manufacturers’ brochure had promised that wrinkles would vanish in a fortnight and that a woman’s skin would look like a girl’s of eighteen in a month. Lileth had conscientiously followed the instructions, but there were undoubtedly tiny wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and the hard line from her nose to her mouth was still there. And yet she was a beautiful woman. She turned her face first this way and then the other and decided that she was lovelier now than she had been five years ago when Bing and then two millionaires, one after the other, had found her i

