Chapter Two“A duel?” the Marquis exclaimed.
He was thinking as he spoke that it was the last thing he would have expected of Lord Seabrooke.
He remembered as Daniela was talking that he had met her father once in the Jockey Club at Newmarket and on another occasion it had been at White’s Club in London.
He had seemed a quiet middle-aged man, good-looking and with a presence which, as Daniela had described it, was that of a country gentleman.
Duels were forbidden in England, but took place secretly, although they were more common in France, usually between the extravagant rather flamboyant young Frenchmen who were over-emotional about their mistresses.
The Marquis would never have debased himself by being involved in one of these duels.
They occurred at a certain spot in the Bois de B
