chapter twoLord Selwyn, having been to see Lord Clarendon to make his report on his mission to Paris, then returned to his home.
He had not been in touch with any of his friends since his arrival.
When he was alone in the library, he took it out of his pocket and read again the letter he had received from ‘A Friend’.
‘I will tear it up and throw it away,’ he told himself.
He had always despised people who wrote anonymous letters and he remembered his father saying that the only place for them was the dustbin.
He dined alone because he had no wish for anyone to know that he was in London.
Afterwards he felt an irresistible urge to go to the back of Maisie’s house.
He could recall her saying in her childlike way,
“It is so disappointing for me that while you have a lovely private gar
