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There was no doubt, Lencia had to admit to herself, that he seemed younger in years. Yet she felt rather embarrassed at the blatant way that her stepmother flattered her father and flirted with him quite openly regardless of who was present in The Castle. Alice watched them wide-eyed as if it was a performance and she was the audience. Because to Lencia her stepmother’s behaviour seemed so vulgar, whenever she could she kept away from her father and his new wife. The girls had planned with their father, before he went to Nice, that he would take them to France before the Season in London started. Alice had been reading about the Castles of the Loire Valley. The Earl knew them well and had promised to take the girls to see Château Chaumont, which was the largest and the most impressiv