“I’ve no idea, Your Grace. It was quite a shock when I goes into her room this mornin’ to find her not there and all her things gone!”
“Did she pack them herself?” the Duke enquired.
“Oh, no, Your Grace. She tells me yesterday evenin’ to pack them all ready before she comes to bed just in case her uncle wished to leave soon after breakfast this mornin’.”
“So she took everything she possessed with her.”
“Yes, Your Grace, two trunks and her jewel case.”
The Duke was not surprised at that.
It was unlikely that any woman would leave behind such magnificent jewels as he had seen Lady Wallace showing to Irene Halford and to two other women in the party.
He had gone into the morning room and found them almost drooling over them and he realised that they could have come only from the East.
