It was assumed that just as Royalty married Royalty, so aristocrat should marry aristocrat and blue blood marry blue blood.
Despite the fact that Kathie had tricked Osmond Sherburn into marrying her niece, the Prince knew that the Marquis would ultimately think it was an excellent match from Forella’s point of view and from his own.
‘I suppose if I thought like an Englishman and did what an Englishman does,’ the Prince told himself, ‘I would either have made Forella come back with me to The Castle or would now behave in what she would consider a treacherous manner and tell Claydon where she is.’
But he was not English, he was Hungarian and, having given Forella his word, he would not break it.
‘Besides,’ he tried to appease his conscience, ‘she is so very different from the ordinary En
