Nelda shook her head.
“No, thank you. I was very hungry and thirsty yesterday before the cowboys found me – but now I think it wise not to eat too much all at once.”
“I am sure that is very sensible,” Waldo agreed.
He was talking to Nelda in an admiring tone that told Lord Harleston that he thought her attractive.
It flashed through his mind that perhaps his disreputable cousin had found his daughter useful in luring rich men into playing cards with him.
He had not missed the blush that rose to her face and he thought it might be because she was ashamed of her life with her father.
He told himself that it was his business to find out exactly what she was like and what she had done in the past before he made plans for her future.
She was exceedingly pretty or rather ‘lovely’ was the
