Chapter FourFor a moment there was complete silence.
Then Madame de Salres gave a shrill scream.
“’Ow can you be so unkind to me, so ’eartless?” she asked him, her words tumbling over themselves. “I gives you my love, my ’eart, and you will not even give to me this necklace!”
The Marquis did not reply and, as if overcome by her feelings, she then swept out of the room, still screaming as she did so of his cruelty and unkindness.
As she went, she left three people staring after her in amazement.
Then the Marquis said in a quiet tone,
“I am certainly prepared, Falcon, to buy this necklace from you, but on one condition.”
Kezia felt her heart almost miss a beat.
She was sure that the Marquis was going to say that it was too expensive, in which case perhaps Perry would refuse to sell h
