The Earl looked at her.
“Is that what you really want?” he asked. “Most women would be dancing on the housetops and planning how they could spend at least a part of the one million pounds on clothes and jewellery.”
Devona gave a little laugh.
“I must certainly buy some new clothes. I am well aware that what I am wearing now are a complete disgrace and you have been kind enough not to comment on them.”
“I thought,” the Earl replied, “that they were rather like my pictures, beautiful, valuable and irreplaceable. At the same time they need a good clean and a new frame.”
“That is a very polite way of putting it, my Lord. But you are quite right, I do need a frame, but I have no idea where to buy it.”
“Have you really never been into the town?”
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