If Penelope and Karla arrived in London today, Karla would soon be home and Penelope would not risk Lord Melford, if he had returned from Scotland, seeing Karla.
He would realise at once that she was not Lady Lindley.
Penelope therefore would despatch Karla straight back to the country immediately on their arrival.
The Marquis gave orders for his travelling chariot and his fastest team of horses to be ready to leave tomorrow morning at eleven o’clock.
He then settled down, to the delight of his secretary, to attend to his correspondence.
However, he found it rather difficult to concentrate on the many invitations he had received and he did not read the letters that had come from beautiful women he had been friendly with in the past.
He thought of going to his Club, but in the end he
