“For Heaven’s sake!” he cried. “What are we fighting about, and why? I have apologised for the mistake I made in sending the wrong manager to Yarde and I have apologised for what occurred during the house party of people who were not my friends but acquaintances I had made when I first arrived in London.”
“What you are saying is that they are friends of Cousin Jarvis!” Dorina said.
“I suppose that’s true,” the Earl agreed. “He certainly greeted me very effusively when I returned last week and was in fact the only member of the family to do so.”
“That was, I am sure, because nobody expected you back, since you had not notified anyone of your arrival. There are dozens of Yardes who would have been only too thrilled to offer you their hospitality and assure you of their delight that you ha
