Chapter 2Lady Clementine gave a little cry,
“Rupert! What can you mean?”
“What I say. I have to get married and quickly.”
“But why? I cannot understand. Rupert, for goodness sake explain yourself.”
“It is the Queen’s command,” Sir Rupert replied and his voice was grim. “Her Majesty has obviously been informed that we have been behaving, if not improperly, at least without propriety.”
“Her Majesty has been informed,” Lady Clementine repeated. “Then – then – there is only one person who can have done it – my mother-in-law. She has been spying on us. I feel certain of it. There has been something in the way she has looked at me, at the things she has said and yet I was certain that no one suspected.”
“You don’t think that your husband – ?” Sir Rupert began.
“Oh no, not Montagu! He know
