CHAPTER FOUR“I must say being a Lord becomes you,” Lady Barnstaple declared with a teasing look in her blue eyes. “It will add to the glittering aura that already surrounds you.”
Rex did not reply because he was used to Kitty Barnstaple’s provocative remarks that she embellished every flirtation with.
“Do you not agree with me, Lady Daviot?” she asked now of Quenella.
There was a little pause before Quenella replied seriously,
“I don’t know– I have never thought about it.”
Kitty Barnstaple laughed.
“You will find, I am afraid, that a great number of women think about Rex! As I have often told him, he attracts them as if he was a honeypot.”
“You are making me embarrassed,” Rex protested.
He rose from the chair to go to the table and refill Kitty’s glass.
As he did so, he thought th
