“If there is one thing I love,” the Dowager Duchess said, “it’s a mystery, but I also prefer it to be solved for me.”
“You will have to wait,” the Duke said. “Then Grandmama, you shall be the first to know exactly what is happening.”
He thought as he spoke that he should have warned Janeta before they had arrived that she would have a lot of questions to answer.
Then to make it easier for her he elaborated on what he had just said.
“The truth is, Grandmama, that Janeta has been very unhappy with her stepmother and so I spirited her away from London without anybody being aware of what I was doing.”
He paused, but as the Duchess did not speak, he went on,
“We did not have time for her to pack anything, so I have brought her to stay with you without any clothes and can only ask you to b
