CHAPTER FIVE“I met Drue first,” the Vicomte began, when we were at Eton together.”
Jabina’s eyes were on his face as he went on,
“My father believed that I should have a cosmopolitan education and sent me to school in England and encouraged me to invite my English friends back to Paris.”
“Drue came to Paris?” Jabina asked.
“Several times,” the Vicomte replied, “and I stayed with him at Warminster and at his other estates in England.”
He paused for a moment and then he went on,
“We were close friends and I think, looking back, that Drue became not only my friend, but the brother I never had.”
“Did he feel the same about you?” Jabina enquired.
“I always believed so,” the Vicomte answered with a smile.
“And you met his father and mother?” Jabina questioned.
“Of course,” the Vicomte
