The fact, however, that her eyes, worried and apprehensive, seemed to fill her small face and she was very pale, made him feel exceedingly angry.
“Tell me,” he said commandingly, “exactly what you have been doing and why you were in Sneldon’s house and dressed like that.”
“I am sorry if it has made you angry,” Petrina answered, “but you must admit it was very bad luck that you should have been passing at that particular moment.”
“And if I had not been, I presume you think no one would have known of this outrageous escapade,” the Earl said, his voice rising. “Or had Sneldon something to do with it?”
There was something most unpleasant in the way he asked the question that instinctively Petrina’s chin rose defensively.
“Sir Mortimer indeed had everything ‒ to do with it,” she answered,
