Chapter FourFor a moment the Marquis thought of replying angrily that he wanted the truth.
Then, because she looked so pretty and was so excited, he found himself saying,
“All right, we will forget all the trouble and decide what is important for me to do now.”
“Do you mean that?” Sedela asked. “And – dare I tell – you – ?”
“I think you have dared quite enough already not to be afraid of overstepping the mark further,” he replied a little sarcastically.
“Then what you have to do,” Sedela said, “is to meet all the people who have been anxious about you and are so delighted now that you have come home.”
“I seem to have heard this before,” the Marquis commented.
He was thinking of what Groves had said when he had helped him dress.
“I suppose from Nanny,” Sedela suggested.
“Nanny and
