He knew that she was crying tempestuously.
He wanted to go back and take her in his arms and hold her close against him and yet he was aware that this would only make things worse.
With a sigh he went into the dressing room shutting the door behind him.
Lola cried for a long time.
Then, as her tears ceased, she wiped her eyes and tried to think clearly.
What the Marquis had just proposed had shocked her as she had never been shocked before in her quiet life.
Then she thought the problem over practically, as her father had told her always to do.
She understood from the Marquis’s point of view that it was the only thing that he could offer her.
She knew only too well the way that her family had behaved towards her mother.
No one would have doubted for a moment, except, Lola thought
