CHAPTER TWOCarola spent a delightful time buying three pretty evening gowns in the nearest town.
She had decided that for the daytime she could wear her mother’s clothes as fashion had altered very little in the last two years.
For the evening, however, her mother’s clothes would have looked old-fashioned.
She found some very pretty dresses at a price that would have horrified her had it not been for the one hundred pounds that Peter had given her to spend.
When she looked at herself in the mirror, she thought at least the Marquis would not be ashamed of her and she remembered too that he was bringing the Broxburne jewels down from London for her to wear.
In the last week Peter had left the house very early in the morning and only returned for dinner.
The Marquis had given him the ta
