CHAPTER SIXThere was an uncomfortable pause.
And then the Duke said,
“You must be aware that I cannot allow you to ruin your reputation before you have hardly set foot in England. You saved me and I am very grateful to you for that. At the same time we now have to be intelligent.”
“I-I don’t – understand,” Josina murmured.
She felt as if the whole room was whirling around her and the whole world had turned topsy-turvy.
How could the Duke possibly mean that they were to be married?
How could she marry him when he loved the Comtesse!
“What I have thought out,” the Duke was saying in what seemed a harsh voice, “is what I think is a very plausible story.”
He hesitated for a moment as if he was trying to find the right words and then continued,
“I went abroad just after Christmas and w
