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CHAPTER TWO-1
CHAPTER TWOLooking round what was more a baronial hall than a dining room, the Duke thought that Sir Jarvis Stamford certainly lived in style. He had not expected Stamford Towers to be quite so big or to find that it was furnished inside opulently but with good taste. There was however, he thought, an unnecessary number of footmen in the hall and he was quite certain that his valet would tell him about the army of servants that existed in the kitchen-quarters. At the moment he was sizing up the guests who had been invited for dinner tonight as County and highly respectable, and Sir Jarvis himself as a very genial host. The Duke was well aware that for him to stay with somebody with whom he had a bare acquaintance was unprecedented, and the effusive manner with which he was greeted and
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