CHAPTER FIVEThe Earl walked back from the card tables to the sofa where he had left Donela.
To his surprise she was not there.
He looked round and realised that she was not on the dance floor nor was she anywhere else in the drawing room.
He then thought that she must have gone upstairs to bed.
It amused him because, when he was with a woman she never left him if there was a chance of their being together.
Because he was so handsome, so rich and so important, he had been pursued by women from the moment he left Eton.
He would have been inhuman if he had not enjoyed their favours and that they flattered, complimented and fawned on him.
At the same time, as he grew older, he very quickly became bored with whoever was his favourite at the moment.
He had one affaire de coeur after anot
