“Do you remember what Papa told us once? That ‘one catches more flies with honey than with vinegar’.”
Paulina laughed. She remembered it well.
Margarita had been storming at one of the many servants for doing something wrong and the Grand Duke Louis had heard her.
He had taken both girls into his study and given them a lecture on being pleasant to those beneath them.
“Women who are pretty can get their own way by smiling and being charming,” he said. “It is far easier and far quicker than using any other method. Always remember that.”
Paulina had then told her father what the Grand Duke had said and Sir Christopher had exclaimed,
“I thought you knew that already. You only have to follow your mother’s example. She could twist anybody around her finger, man, woman or child, just by usi
