Chapter ThreeThe Duchess was sitting in her favourite seat in the window when to her surprise she saw her son driving back towards the house.
As he had left her well over an hour ago to return to Harewood House, she could not imagine what had made him come back.
She waited and, when she heard his footsteps outside the room, she looked up expectantly.
He came in, but before he could speak, she cried,
“What has happened, Kerne? I did not expect to see you again so quickly!”
“It’s nothing to upset you, Mama,” the Duke replied as he walked over to her side.
“Then what is it?” the Duchess enquired.
The Duke sat down in a chair next to her before he answered,
“While I was driving, I saw Miss Lavenham’s great-niece and found her in great distress.”
“What can have upset her?”
“Apparently
