Chapter ThreeThe Earl stared at him.
For a moment he could not believe what he had just heard.
Then he knew that it was the most preposterous suggestion that he had ever listened to.
He had found ‘romance’, if that was the right word for it, in Paris and again in London after returning to England.
Because he was so handsome and so much in favour with the King, that there was no shortage of beautiful women to fawn on him.
As the King had taken a Lady of Quality as his mistress, members of the Court were only too willing to follow his example.
The Earl found it so very easy to have affaires de coeur with the beauties who frequented The Palace. Most of them had husbands who held positions of importance.
A few were there in their own right because, if there had been a Queen, they would
