CHAPTER TWOThe Earl stared at her in amazement.
Then, when he would have spoken, she put her finger to her lips and he was aware that she could not speak to him in front of the small boy.
As they drove on, the Earl said to her,
“I do think, Lady Lupita, that it would be a great mistake for you to stay at a hotel alone with Jerry. As I knew your father, I feel in a way responsible for you and I therefore suggest that you stay at my house in Grosvenor Square.”
Lupita looked at him in some surprise.
“Stay with you? But we – have only just – met you.”
“I know that,” the Earl answered with a smile, “but perhaps you don’t understand the difficulties you would encounter in a strange hotel. Also, owing to the Queen’s Jubilee, every hotel in London is heavily booked at present.”
“I-I did not
