“I think, sir,” he said to D’Arcy Archer, “you are the entertainers his Lordship told me to expect. Your bedrooms are ready for you and, on his Lordship’s instructions there’s a sitting room adjoining them where there’s a piano, which his Lordship felt you might require.”
“That is extremely considerate,” D’Arcy Archer replied. “And is his Lordship at home at the moment?”
“No, sir,” the butler replied. “His Lordship and his guests are at the races.”
They were shown upstairs by a footman and taken along a corridor at the end of which was a suite consisting of two bedrooms with a sitting room between them where there was an upright piano.
Because it looked slightly out of place, Ilouka was sure it had been added as a concession to their profession. She thought, as Mr. Archer had said, tha
