As she rode on, she told herself that the Earl had been unjust and unfair.
He had not taken into consideration that everything she had done had been for his sake, to save him from having to marry Lady Isolda and from being cheated by his mistress.
‘He should really be grateful to me,’ Petrina told herself.
Next her own temper asserted itself and she no longer felt crushed and humiliated but defiant.
She could understand the Earl being annoyed that she had, as he claimed, intrigued with Nicholas Thornton.
The consequences if she had not done so must now be very obvious to him.
But the way he had spoken to her made her feel extremely resentful.
As she rode over the bridge of the Serpentine towards Rotten Row, she told herself that he was definitely both unjust and ungrateful.
Petrina
