CHAPTER SIXClola awoke and realised that it was late in the day.
Jamie must have slipped out without waking her and she knew that she had in fact been utterly exhausted when finally she fell asleep.
It had taken a long time because she had been deeply perturbed by the manner in which the Duke had spoken to her and she had slowly climbed back into bed feeling a despair that was worse than anything she had ever known before.
For a long time she had turned over and over in her mind what explanation she could give him other than the one that had come spontaneously to her lips when she had found him standing at the top of the stairs.
It seemed to her that there was no way in which she could excuse herself without involving Torquil.
Though she felt it was extremely reprehensible of him afte
