Chapter TwoWhen Cledra had left him to go to the stables, the Earl walked back into the dining room and, as he took his place at the head of the table, one of his guests remarked,
“She must have been pretty, Poynton, to have kept you so long!”
The Earl did not reply and Eddie Lowther was aware that his lips tightened slightly.
It was one of his unbreakable rules that he never at any time discussed the women in his life nor allowed anybody else to do so.
There had been actually a great many of them and Eddie often thought wryly that they were magnetised not only by his position, his wealth and his attractions, which were considerable, but also by the fact that the Earl was elusive and, when it concerned a love affair, extremely unpredictable.
“Has there ever been a woman who did not fe
