As he spoke, and he was sure he was not mistaken, the colour came back into Janeta’s pale cheeks and there was just a faint air of excitement about her.
Then she said,
“Are you quite sure – if we are married as you say – Stepmama will not send my father – after us to bring me back – and perhaps charge you – for marrying me illegally – as I am a minor and did not have his approval.”
“It is, of course, possible for him to do that,” the Duke agreed, “but I am not being conceited, Janeta, when I say that your father was ready to welcome me as a son-in-law as would a great number of other parents in the Social world.”
His voice was cynical as he finished,
“So I am quite sure that he would not wish to make himself a laughing-stock by trying to annul a marriage that would be a social advanta
