“There is also such a thing as circumstantial evidence.”
“Which still has to be proved,” Latonia said quickly.
There was silence.
Then Lord Branscombe said,
“I suppose you would consider it right and proper, or shall I say ‘fair’ if I listen to any explanations you might wish to make.”
Latonia looked out over the sea before she responded,
“We are moving towards a part of the world I have never visited before and we have left England behind. Surely we can do the same about my past.”
“Is that what you want to do or is that a statement which you think will impress me?”
She had a feeling, which she could not substantiate, that he was deliberately forcing himself into being more disagreeable than he actually felt.
“I have just watched the dawn of a new day,” Latonia said. “Perhaps huma
