“But if you find the position untenable or in any way unpleasant, then you must tell me at once. Is that a promise?”
“I promise, but I am sure if Nanny is with me, I shall be safe from any advances he might make and, if you produce a number of beautiful young ladies, I am also sure he will consider himself too grand to take any interest in a humble secretary.”
The Earl doubted the logic of this, but he was in fact in a desperate position.
He had deliberately delayed the Marquis’s arrival in London by arranging for him to be invited to stay at the house of an eminent Peer in Sussex.
As he had said, there were a number of people in the War Office who were prepared to trust the Marquis. They were continually asking the Earl when the Marquis was to arrive in London and why there was a dela
