“Now, let me make it clear from the very beginning,” he said, “that I cannot have my plans interfered with. As you promised, Ula, to trust me, you must also obey me.”
Ula’s eyes fell before him.
Then she said in a low voice,
“Mama – told me once that a lady could – accept only small presents – from a gentleman without being thought ‘fast’ or – improper. I think she meant a fan or perhaps a pair of gloves – nothing else.”
“And yet I think you had originally very different ideas of what you would accept when you came to London!” the Marquis remarked.
Ula blushed and looked very lovely as she did so.
Then she said,
“I-I thought then I should be – earning the money – not just accepting it as a – gift.”
“That is the answer!” the Marquis said. “You will be earning the money because you w
