CHAPTER TENThe wedding was over and the guests had assembled in the drawing room to take champagne.
It was a small gathering. Apart from the Duke and Duchess, and of course the Count, there was the Count’s Best Man, a club acquaintance called Braider, and Charity. Edith and Charlotte were also present, but the sudden change of the wedding date meant their husbands, both away on business, had not returned in time to join them.
Sylvia, pale and silent, had gone upstairs to change her dress.
The Count drank five glasses of champagne and then called for more.
A different servant returned with the tray. When the Duchess saw who it was, her hand flew to her breast. The Count had said he would send someone from his own household to help out at the castle today, but the Duchess had not expecte
