“Are there a lot of people talking about Sir Rupert and Lady Clementine?”
“Oh no,” Madame Marcele replied. “They’ve been ever so careful. It’s only that I hears about such things seeing as how my cousin’s daughter is third housemaid at Wroth Castle.”
“What do you think Lady Clementine will feel about Sir Rupert’s marriage?” Nerina asked.
Madame Marcele gave her another of her quick sidelong glances.
“Her Ladyship doesn’t concern herself with the ties her gentlemen may have,” she said. “Over and over again I’ve heard her say, ‘what’s his private life to me?’ I remember Lord Julian stammering something about his brother being annoyed with him over his goings on with her Ladyship, of course. And Lady Clementine gives him one of her deep looks from under her eyelashes, I was fitting her at
