The Earl did not reply, but he was thinking about Beryl when Imeldra left him.
The door opened and the butler announced,
“Lord Bullington, my Lord.”
The Earl looked at his visitor enquiringly.
Lord Bullington was a tall man with a distinguished presence and a slightly pompous manner.
He was also exceedingly wealthy with an important place in Court circles and so it was understandable that the very lovely girl who had attracted him the first time he saw her had been eagerly pushed into marriage by her parents.
Elaine Bullington had, however, admitted to the Earl that she had not been in the least in love with her husband when she married him.
“He was sixteen years older than I was,” she had said, “and although it was very exciting immediately the ring was on my finger to become a pro
