And there was Daisy, whoever she might be, and a number of other names that kept cropping up in the conversation when the women on the ship talked about Lord Saire, as if there was no other subject as interesting.
Even the inevitable gossip about the Prince of Wales and the innumerable ladies who attracted him was not so interesting as the love affairs of Lord Saire, because they could actually see him and eulogise over his undoubted personal attractions,
Bertilla listened to everything that was said and it did not detract in any way from her admiration for her benefactor.
In fact it added to what she already felt about him.
‘How could it be expected,’ she asked herself, ‘that any man who was so handsome and so irresistibly alluring would not be pursued by women? And because he was hum
