CHAPTER SEVENThe table that had been laid for them was round and just large enough for five people, a welcome change from the huge oblong table where the Duke normally dined.
The Duke seated Lady Alexandra on his right and her mother on his left. Lady Gorleston shoved her way in front of Elvina, as though afraid that she might take a better seat than was a servant’s right.
But Elvina had the last laugh, because she found herself sitting directly opposite the Duke.
Violet turned the conversation to horses. It might have been innocently done, but the three of them knew all about horses and it soon became obvious that the Gorleston ladies knew very little.
Good manners kept Elvina from pressing a subject which would show the guests at a disadvantage, but when Violet mentioned breeding it
