chapter threeThe Duke stood looking out of the window, feeling that his self-imprisonment could not go on like this and he would have to do something about it.
He had the previous evening gone out onto the roof of The Castle so that he could enjoy the fresh air and he had stayed there for quite a long time.
He was trying to decide how soon he should announce that his bout of malaria was over and knew that this meant he would have to return, if only to pay a courtesy call, to Dalbeth House.
He had seen Giovanna soon after having his breakfast and had thought that there was a very obvious change in her that made it easier for him.
“When can I get up?”
He realised as she spoke that she was not speaking in the same hesitating frightened manner that she had before and for the time being at
