“I am sure that is true,” Indira agreed, “but some people have very few cupboards and some a ‘Bluebeard’s Chamber’ where it is best to leave the door closed.”
She was talking as if she were with her father and they were exchanging points of view and arguing as if they were two dons fencing with each other in words.
The Marquis was just about to reply when Lady Sinclair put her hand on his arm and said plaintively,
“You are neglecting me, Seldon! And it is something that has never happened to me before. I am feeling very hurt by such unkindness.”
She spoke in a little girl’s voice that he had found rather intriguing when he had first met her.
Like all strong positive men, he believed he liked women to be small, clinging and feminine and Lady Sinclair with her pink and white beauty appe
