The Earl was not quite certain how it happened, but he found that Lady Caroline was with him wherever he went.
Without meaning to he then met her practically every day and it was on her insistence that it became every night.
It was only when it was almost too late that he realised that she was seeking not only amusement but marriage.
One thing he had determined during the War was not to get married until he was very much older and ready to start a family.
He had heard too much, not only from his close friends but also from the men he commanded, of unfaithful wives.
“I trusted her,” a brother Officer told him bitterly, “not only with my house, all my money and my children but also with my heart.”
He went on to tell the Earl exactly what had happened to him. It was inevitably one of hi
