Chapter TwoAs soon as Philippe Dubucheron entered the room, Mr. Beaumont left it.
He realised that he had not had time to give the servants the Duke’s instructions that he would see nobody and His Grace’s solitude had therefore been interrupted.
Dubucheron was the type of hanger-on whom Mr. Beaumont most disliked, although he told himself that there was some excuse for the French dealer because he had something to sell.
At the same time he thought that the manner in which he was prepared to procure women for his patrons and to introduce them to the more seamy cabarets and every other low type of entertainment in Paris was extremely undesirable.
The Duke was old enough to look after himself.
Equally men like Dubucheron only pandered to the tastes that Mr. Beaumont deplored and, he was
