They at least would know the protocol of the social life and they would entertain in the same way that their mothers had and their grandmothers before them.
Pleasantly conventionally and most important of all making no mistakes which were so easily made by those who were not born into the ancient families of a country, who had established through the years the right behaviour for ladies and gentlemen.
Supposing, in spite of all that the old man had said, she was, as far as the Social Convention was concerned, nothing but a hooligan?
How could he possibly make her acceptable to his family and, of course, and this was essential, to hers?
Sir John had never visited an Eastern Convent or in fact any Convent.
He had no idea whether nuns in the East behaved in the same way as he expected th
