They would certainly be suspicious if she were!” Nicky said.
“Suspicious of what?” Delos asked.
“That she was being – extravagant,” Lady Stanton said quickly.
“How could she be extravagant if she did not have any money?” Delos enquired.
“We really need not concern ourselves with such ridiculous questions,” Lady Stanton replied. “Larisa will have some gowns to go to France and we shall all have to help her make them.”
“Surely it depends, Mama, upon whether I get the position,” Larisa said. “We now have to wait until a letter arrives from the Comte.”
Comte“Yes, of course,” Lady Stanton agreed, “perhaps there will not be one after all.”
She seemed almost pleased at the idea.
But Larisa knew that if the Comte did not want her, the only alternative would be for her to write to one of th
