The sofas and chairs were empty.
“Where is Sir Harvey?”
She heard her own voice ring out loudly because of the fear that was in her heart. She turned as she spoke only to see, to her astonishment, the doors that she had just come through close.
The Major Domo had gone!
She stood for a moment in bewilderment and then stepped forward to open the door herself in order to find someone to demand an explanation from.
“Can I help you?” a voice asked from the other end of the room.
Paolina whirled round. Coming from between two softly hanging curtains there was a man. She stared at him for a moment as if she could hardly believe her eyes.
Then the sudden tenseness of her body told her only too well who it was.
It was the Duke!
She walked towards him swiftly with her head held high,
“What
