Chapter TwoFor a moment the Earl thought that he could not have him heard right.
Then in a voice, that did not sound like his own, he exclaimed,
“Marry your daughter!”
“That is what I just said,” Lord Frazer replied, “and I think it an excellent idea. Nothing could be more convenient for you than to have our two estates joined together.”
The Earl drew in his breath because he was finding it hard to think.
He had had no intention of marrying for many years yet least of all to a young girl.
And the young girls he had met he had found extremely boring.
When he was in India, he had spent his time in a very different manner.
The ladies in the Hill Stations were alluring, but inevitably already married.
They had left their husbands on the plains when they went up to Simla and hoped that
