“You must certainly try,” Olivia replied hopefully.
Other visitors made searching questions about the Earl as a man and Olivia suspected that they thought she was trying to ‘set her cap’ at the Earl or at Gerald.
It was then she remembered that the Earl had stipulated that she and Gerald had to marry each other.
She shivered at the thought that this was another problem that was waiting for them in the future.
She realised that Gerald had changed a great deal in the last weeks since he had assumed authority.
He had been hesitant at first and had asked her advice about everything.
But he had gradually taken the initiative himself. She was aware that he was, as her father would have said, ‘very much more of a man’.
At the same time there was no question of his being the man of her drea
