So they had been seeing each other!
Perhaps now that their engagement was announced to the newspapers the Earl was satisfied that his suspicions were unfounded.
Or were they meeting clandestinely, prepared to risk discovery because they could not deny their love?
Anthea wondered what the Countess really felt about the Duke being married.
‘If I was in love with a man,’ she thought, ‘I would hate him to marry someone else! I would be desperately jealous!’
Then she told herself she was being conceited in making herself of such importance. How could her beautiful, alluring, seductive Godmother be even remotely jealous of her?
The idea was ludicrous!
She was nothing but a country mouse!
But now, waiting to leave for the Church, Anthea had to admit to herself that the Duke had acted his
