Chapter ThreeAs she drove away with the Duke from Queen’s Rest, Delphine thought with a sense of outrage that her father had messed up what had been in her opinion a perfect plan.
It had never entered her mind for one second that, when she had left the men alone in the dining room, her father might take the Duke to visit the kitchen.
Because she had always been bored with architecture, even that of her own home, she had never listened to what her father was saying either to the family or to guests.
Now, however, she remembered too late that anyone who was interested in architecture was always taken to see the kitchen ceiling.
Equally she knew that the one thing she must not do was to let the Duke think that she was in any way upset.
When she had first realised, to her intense satisfac
