The feeling of danger was so strong, so insistent, that he told himself it was imperative that he should see Giona immediately to warn her not only of what had occurred, but that it might even be necessary to move her somewhere else.
He rose to his feet saying as he did so, “Thank you, Middleton! Thank you very much! Now have some breakfast after your journey, and I will see you later in the morning.”
“I thank Your Grace.”
The Duke walked from the breakfast room, and when he reached the hall he was wondering whether to ride or to drive to the Dower House.
Then the butler came towards him to say, “The horses that Your Grace ordered to be brought round for Your Grace’s appraisal are outside.”
The Duke remembered then, what he had forgotten, that he had told his grooms when he finished r
