Thank you for coming over yesterday and I should be very grateful if you could manage to call tomorrow.
I remain,
Yours most sincerely,
Gytha.”
Her handwriting, Lord Locke noticed, was very elegant and the letter was well phrased.
He put it into his pocket and then returned to entertaining his guests.
They enjoyed an excellent luncheon and afterwards Lucy Compton and the gentleman she was enamoured with begged to be able to stay for another night. They would return to London early the next morning.
“We are so comfortable here, dearest Valiant,” Lucy Compton smiled, “and it will be such fun to be alone with you and Perry without your turbulent Princess, who casts an evil spell on me every time I talk to you.”
Lord Locke laughed a little ruefully.
“She really does make me feel frigh
