Chapter FourVina ran upstairs to her bedroom.
There was nobody there as her maid had not yet come to arrange her bath and for a moment she looked around her wildly.
Then it occurred to her that her aunt might come in to talk to her, so she locked the door.
She could hardly believe that what Lord Edgar said was true.
Yet she was intelligent enough to realise that it was not only a possibility but it explained what she had sensed in her uncle’s and aunt’s attitudes before they had arrived in Quarington.
This was why her aunt had kept stressing what an attractive young man Lord Edgar was and it was also definitely part of her excitement at being a guest of the Duke at his majestic home.
Vina seated herself on the chaise longue that stood at the bottom of the bed and tried to think clear
