“Tomorrow I would hope you will take breakfast with them and later, if you are in, they can be with you at luncheon and dinner.”
“I can see you are organising my life for me in a way I have not experienced before,” the Earl said sharply.
“I am not concerned with your life, my Lord, but the happiness of your two sons. When I came, as anyone who is truthful will tell you, they were both exceedingly unhappy and frightened little boys.”
The Earl stared at her.
For a second she thought that he was going to walk away and refuse to listen to another word.
Instead, rather to her surprise, he remarked,
“I cannot do anything else but believe what you are telling me, even though I find it almost incredible, but, as you suggest, I will be pleased to see my sons at breakfast and, of course, to h
