“It seems incredible!” Conrad exclaimed.
“I think,” Delora said, “that the Viscountess and for that matter the Viscount, disapproved of Denzil and that I was to marry Lord Grammell.”
Conrad could see all too clearly that, while the Foreign Secretary and his wife disapproved, there was nothing that they could do to interfere with the private arrangements of the man who had been appointed as Governor.
How Lord Grammell achieved the position he had no idea, but, unpleasant though he was, he obviously had influential friends in the House of Lords and it was certainly not the Foreign Secretary’s business to say whom he should or should not marry.
Conrad could understand all too clearly how Delora, small and helpless as any little animal, was caught in a trap from which he could see no escap
