Then he remembered the glances that Lady Gillingham had given him and the manner in which she had shown all too clearly that she was not particularly interested in either of her step-daughters. That, of course, was the explanation! Rodney felt the frown easing from between his eyes. Catherine Gillingham had kept both Phillida and Lizbeth in the background and had done nothing to help their chances of matrimony.
Something that had happened at supper came to Rodney’s mind. He had turned to Lizbeth who was sitting silent at the other side of the table and asked.
“Why are you called Lizbeth?”
“I was christened Elizabeth,” she said, “but found it a difficult name to pronounce as soon as I could talk. My mother had the same name and it was thought to be too complicated to have two of us answe
