CHAPTER FOURComing down the stairs for dinner dressed in a beautiful gown Carmela thought if she were not so frightened of doing something which might have repercussions on Felicity the situation was actually rather amusing.
Because the Earl had called a truce, he was going out of his way to be charming and to treat her as if she was an intelligent woman instead of a brainless school-girl.
For the last two days she had realised the effort he was making, and she felt it was perhaps the first time in his life that he had had to consider a woman’s feelings rather than his own.
Now he included her in any conversation he had with the Prince and asked her opinion and even listen to what she had to say.
She was quite certain that what he normally expected was to lay down the law and have ever
