Chapter FiveAndrina returned to the house with Lady Evelyn after attending a reception, which secretly she had found rather dull.
It had been full of her Ladyship’s friends and, although they had been kind and flatteringly inquisitive, Andrina was well aware that what they really wanted was to gossip about the Duke.
It had obviously caused a sensation that after all these years he had suddenly entertained on such a lavish scale and she sensed that the Beau Monde was already speculating as to which of his attractive Wards he would marry.
She wondered if in fact Sharon had done as she had advised her and gone out of her way to be charming and fascinating to him.
‘Of course,’ Andrina told herself with a sigh, ‘Sharon is very young.’
At the same time it was impossible to think of the Duke
