Alita thought that what the Duke really meant was that if Clint Wilbur was his son-in-law, he could be persuaded to defray most of the expenses incurred on the Langstone property.
However, Alita said nothing but merely went on eating her breakfast, until at last when the Duke and Duchess had left the room she and Hermione were alone together.
“I am longing to hear what you thought of Mr. Wilbur,” Alita said in a tone that Hermione invariably responded to.
“Don’t tell Papa and Mama,” she replied, “but I was rather disappointed in him.”
“You were?”
“He is good-looking in a way,” Hermione continued, “but very sure of himself, which I did not expect from an American, and I had a feeling that he was not as bowled over by me as I thought he would be.”
“I am sure you are mistaken,” Alita sa
