“There’s always gentlemen askin’ him for money and women as never leaves him alone and they be the worst!”
Aldora felt that this was not a conversation she should be having with the Duke’s personal servant and, picking out two books from the case, she stood up holding them in her arms.
“Your Ladyship’s been the best thing that’s happened to His Grace for a long time,” Hobson went on as if he was following his own train of thought.
“What do you mean by that?” Aldora asked curiously.
“You’ve looked after him as if you were his mother, you’ve kept him amused and not clung to him like a leech, which every other lady he’s had near him has done till I’m ready to believe they were tryin’ to suck the life-blood out of him!”
Aldora looked at Hobson with surprise.
She knew, because he loved th
