“Not all that lot,” Harry replied scathingly. “They are all the same. To them you are a rich Duke and a very handsome and attractive man. Put those two things together and why should they bother to look any further?”
The Duke laughed as if he could not help it.
“Very well, Harry,” he said, “you win. But what do you expect me to do? Explore the world, where I expect once I arrive anywhere things will be pretty much the same as they are in England, only more uncomfortable?”
He paused before he added,
“I could retire like a hermit, to Eagle Hall and contemplate my navel in the forlorn hope of spiritual salvation!”
“I have a better idea,” Harry piped up.
There was a note of excitement in his voice that the Duke did not miss.
“It has just come to me again, if you like, through the guidan
