Chapter Four“Will you dine with me tomorrow evening, Trent?” the Viscount enquired.
“I think tomorrow I ought to go down to Raven House,” Lord Ravenscar replied. “I have not been there for three weeks and the Prince Regent will be away for the next few days.”
“Then I think your duty obviously lies in the country,” the Viscount remarked with a smile.
As if he realised that his friend did not wish to discuss the matter further, he then talked of other things.
It had in fact been pricking Lord Ravenscar’s conscience that, having left Raven House when Caryl was in the throes of having her baby, he had found a dozen valid excuses for not returning there.
He had learnt from his agent, Mr. Arkwright, who kept him in continual touch with what was happening in the country, that Caryl had produ
