Chapter SEVENDriving towards Cato Street in the closed brougham that he sometimes used in London, the Marquis could hardly believe that what Emily had told him was true.
Now he remembered saying to Cara,
“I am dining in tonight, but not tomorrow, as I have to meet the Cabinet at Lord Harrowby’s.”
She had made no comment at the time and he had not thought it to be significant.
But now he was sure that the reason she had gone to Cato Street was to find out if Emily’s story was true and they really intended to murder the Cabinet at Lord Harrowby’s house the next evening.
It seemed incredible and yet, as the Marquis had said so often, the seeds of revolution in the country had been growing steadily and nobody had done anything about it.
To make certain that Cara was actually out and was
