Chapter ThreeBy the time Tempera got back to the Chateau she felt her mind was in a whirl and it was difficult to think coherently. How could she have talked in such a manner to the Duke which, she felt, had been far too self-revealing?
Then she told herself there was no reason why he should connect her with her father, and after all it was possible for a lady’s maid, like other servants, to have a talent.
The thought was however not reassuring, and in the time that followed before Lady Rothley returned from Monte Carlo Tempera could only go over and over again her conversation with the Duke and wish that it had not happened.
He was undoubtedly the best-looking and the most attractive man she had ever seen, but as she had thought at first sight there was something else about him, someth
