Chapter 4The Marquis, having changed his clothes after riding, came down the stairs aware that there was a murmur of voices in the drawing room.
He thought he recognised Lady Sinclair’s childlike tone and decided that he did not wish to encounter her at the moment.
He was quite certain that she would be reproachful and plaintive because he had been riding without her and would be exceedingly jealous when she realised that he had been accompanied by Lady Mary.
If there was one thing that bored the Marquis, it was women who became excessively jealous when they had no reason for it. Before he reached the hall he had come to the conclusion that he had finished with Lady Sinclair.
The suddenness of his decision surprised him, for usually in his many and fiery love affairs there was a ‘cooli
