chapter twoThe Duke’s first feeling was one of irritation.
He realised that it would be a mistake for him to be seen by anybody from the house walking about at night and he had never expected there would be anybody else in the woods or, for that matter, by the cascade.
It seemed unlikely that she was a tourist and was therefore probably a servant who would go back to the house to announce that she had seen him.
He stood in the shadows of the trees thinking that the best thing he could do was to return the way he had come, when the woman ahead of him moved a little nearer to the cascade and he saw that she was looking down as if she was feeling her way.
It struck him that it was a dangerous thing to do for, if she overbalanced, she would be swept by the water hundreds of feet down onto
