“Surely you argued with him?” he quizzed her at length and his voice seemed to come from a long distance away.
“I not only – argued with him,” Daphne replied, “I told him it was – not true.”
“Did you expect him to believe that?”
“I told him that, when you came to the house it was – not to see me but Sadira.”
The Earl stared at her in puzzlement and for a moment he could not think what she meant.
Then he remembered that the Marquis had a daughter by his previous marriage and he had seen her once disappearing down the end of a corridor.
Now that he thought about it, he might have met her at an ‘at home’ that her stepmother had given in her house. It was early in their acquaintance, when he was still no more than curious about Daphne.
He had no memory now of what the girl had looked li
