Chapter FourQuintus Tiverton returned from the baccarat room to find Selina and Sir John.
She glanced at him quickly and apprehensively, hoping that he had won. But his face was quite expressionless and she told herself that a real gambler would never reveal any emotion where his gaming was concerned.
They were sitting talking with Sir John Wilton and Quintus was drinking wine, when there was a considerable commotion at the end of the room.
Selina saw a woman resplendently gowned and covered in diamonds moving slowly across the salon on the arm of a very distinguished-looking man with a small imperial beard.
“Caroline Letessier!” Quintus Tiverton declared, almost as if he spoke to himself.
“I thought she was in Russia,” Sir John remarked.
“His Imperial Highness is with her, so I imag
