“You don’t know Gallen if you think he would lie about that sort of thing. He is usually brutally frank about people. He was the person who first said that Lady Jersey ‘looked like an inquisitive parakeet!’ and that Beau Brummel was a ‘clothes horse on legs’.”
Beryl laughed.
“I assure you, Torilla, he administers more put-downs than he pays compliments. But I want him to like you, because once we are married you can come and stay with us and I will find you a suitable husband.”
Torilla thought privately that it was very unlikely after what she had said to him today that the Marquis would welcome her to any house that he owned, but aloud she replied,
“You are very kind to me, Beryl dearest, and thank you for the gown.”
“I have told my maid to take a whole lot of things to your room alr
