“What is this you are saying?”
“Now at last I have remembered,” the gentleman replied, “where I have seen this lovely lady before. She is not only beautiful but has a voice like an angel. She was so enchanting that I found I had been sitting on a very hard chair without complaining for two hours listening to her!”
Isa laughed.
Then she saw that the Duke was looking at her with a frown between his eyes.
As Lord Lovat turned away to say ‘goodnight’ to another lady in the party, he said in a low voice,
“So I was right! You were acting a part, Miss McNaver, and I can only congratulate you on thinking up such an original way of obtaining an invitation to my ball!”
Isa’s eyes seemed to widen until they filled her whole face.
The way the Duke spoke and the sarcasm in his voice made her rea
