Chapter fiveLord Locke had passed a restless night.
To begin with he was aware that Zuleika was determined to have a scene with him sooner or later.
And he had every intention of avoiding it.
It was two o’clock in the morning when the house party finally went up to bed, having gambled for very high stakes at the card tables.
Lord Locke, instead of going to his own room, went into Perry’s.
“What is the situation now, Valiant?” Perry asked him.
He was the only person who Lord Locke had told the truth to about his alleged engagement to Gytha.
After she had been to dinner, Perry had sung her praises loudly and sincerely.
“She is beautiful and she is intelligent,” he said, “and, although she needs dressing up to compete with the beauties of St. James’s, she is, in my opinion, a most exc
