CHAPTER TWOArliva slept well that night despite the fact that she had been very late going to bed.
It had been two o’clock before anyone had thought of leaving what to them was a very good party.
She was glad when at last some of the older guests decided that they were tired and the band played ‘God Save the Queen’as everyone stood to attention.
They all said that it was one of the best parties they had been to in the Season.
Only Arliva knew what trouble she had experienced in keeping away from the Earl, who had been ordered by his mother to propose to her.
He kept turning up every time she was without a partner to ask her to dance and fortunately she was able to stave him off by saying that she had promised someone else.
In fact she managed to avoid dancing with him at all before t
