CHAPTER SIXThe significance of what Lord Burnham had said took a moment or two to percolate into Ajanta’s mind.
Then she realised that he must be referring to documents relating to the divorce and this meant that Lady Burnham and the Marquis would not be free of danger until he had actually married.
For a moment she felt that she could not have heard correctly what Lord Burnham had said, but the scowl on the Marquis’s face and the tightness of his lips told her that he was well aware whom after all was the winner of the contest.
She stood still looking at him apprehensively, wondering what she could say.
She was aware with one part of her mind that Charis and Lyle were chattering on, yet she found it impossible to understand what they were saying.
Then, as the Marquis looked at her an
