CHAPTER THREEChandra sat down opposite Lord Frome, realising as she did so that he had not invited her to sit and wondering if he intended her to stand in front of him like a servant.
In a voice she forced to sound quiet and slow, she said,
“My father unfortunately had a heart attack two days before he was due to leave.”
“And you did not cable me?”
“No,” Chandra answered. “Because I thought that it would be very difficult for you to find anyone quickly to replace my father, I came in his place.”
For a moment Lord Frome looked at her incredulously.
Then he said,
“By what possible reasoning could you believe you could be of any use to me?”
Chandra smiled.
She had thought that this would be his attitude and she replied,
“For the last five years I have worked with my father on the Sa
