But he would not relate exactly what had happened, except, Pandora gathered, that the Earl had made a mockery of everything her uncle revered.
It was now June and Pandora guessed that the Regent would have left London for Brighton and the leaders of Society would have followed him.
Therefore, the Earl of Chartwood had, like most of his friends, moved from his town house to his country Estate.
There was no doubt that his arrival would result in the same excitement in Lindchester. The gossips would be waiting for each tit-bit of scandal that they could repeat and re-repeat to each other over the tea-tables.
Pandora knew it would hurt her because in disparaging the Earl she felt as if they also disparaged the name that had been her mother’s.
The Chart family had been playing their part i
