CHAPTER FOURLeona had made up her mind that somehow she must cross the boundary onto Lord Strathcairn’s land and if possible see him.
She realised as the days passed at Ardness Castle that it was not going to be easy, for to begin with, whether by design or not, she never left The Castle unaccompanied.
The Duke, who seemed to be doing everything in his power to be pleasant and make her happy, took her riding or she went driving with the other guests.
The first shooting party left and another arrived and there were large dinner parties every night and always a dozen or more people to luncheon.
It seemed to Leona as if every moment of her day was filled with some activity or another, and she would have been extremely ungrateful if she had not been pleased and a little touched by the kind
