“Will that mean I will be given quite a large sum of money?”
“A very large sum! “ Harry said firmly, “for the simple reason that you are not going to ask for the small annual allowance which the Duke paid his wife, but for a substantial capital payment in return for which you will promise to disappear out of their lives forever.”
“All we really want is enough for the two operations,” Larentia said quickly.
“Katie wants a great deal more than that,” Harry replied. “Can you imagine what her position has been like, knowing that because she was married to the Duke when she was too young to know what she was doing, she could never marry anybody else?”
Harry made his voice sound very confidential as he said,
“I do not mind telling you that because she is so beautiful, like yourself, she has
