Ancient lineage must not be impaired by an infusion of red blood, but it was something that she had accepted as peculiar to foreigners.
So in a way it was a shock to find the same thing existed in England.
She approached the Folly, knowing that she was playing truant and deceiving Delia, whom she loved.
At the same time she was determined that the Marquis should treat her with respect.
‘We are not doing any harm,’ she argued with herself as if to placate her conscience. ‘It is simply that it is fun to be with an agreeable young man rather than having little or nothing to do until I can go to London.’
As she neared the Folly, she saw the Marquis’s horse tethered to a tree nearby and she thought with a leap of her heart that he was there.
He must have been watching for her as she had c
