Oletha passed a sleepless night.
She lay in her comfortable bed in the beautiful room that had been especially designed to her own taste, thinking that she was caught in a trap that she could see very little chance of escape from.
She was astute enough to realise that once she went with her father to stay with the Duke and he proposed marriage, it would be almost impossible for her to refuse him.
She was well aware that her father had always longed for greater Social recognition than he received in the County of Worcestershire.
It had irked him that he and her mother, while widely acknowledged as well-known and respected people, had no precedence compared with the many Noble families that the County abounded with.
The Earl of Coventry was known over the length and breadth of England a
