Chapter SixThe Duke planned that he would try to get Ilitta to himself after tea.
It was the usual elaborate meal in the drawing room with a multitude of cakes, sandwiches and hot scones and the Comtesse looked very elegant as she poured from a silver teapot.
As they talked around the table, the Duke kept glancing towards Ilitta, feeling that if he could only catch her eye she would understand that he wished to speak to her alone.
But she was obviously determined to remain aloof from him and he felt that to announce deliberately that he wished to speak to his sister might cause comment.
The Comtesse made it very clear that she wished to talk to him and, as they both knew Paris well and had a number of mutual friends in London, it was not difficult for her to monopolise the conversation
