“She is already trying to take the Marquis away from me!” Betty exclaimed.
Tarina turned to look at her wide-eyed.
“How can she, when she is already married?”
There was a little silence until Betty said lamely,
“She can – flirt with him. Marriage does not stop a woman from doing that.”
“Well, it should do!” Tarina snapped as she lifted another gown from the trunk and hung it up in the cupboard.
*
When the Marquis came down from the bridge to change for dinner, he heard laughter coming from the cabin next to his where he had deliberately placed Lady Bradwell.
It sounded very young, natural and unrestrained laughter.
When he listened to it for a moment, he thought it was very different from the rather contrived laughter of Lady Millicent and most of the other sophisticated beauties
