CHAPTER TWOVenetia stared at her Godmother.
“What do you – mean?”
There was a little hesitation before she replied,
“I am not sure if I ought to tell you – ”
“But you must tell me, Aunt Alice. Papa is insistent that I marry the Duke and I realise that something strange must have happened to him. Otherwise he would not marry someone he has never seen, even my Papa’s daughter!”
“It is the most extraordinary thing I ever heard. At the same time, my dearest child, you are sensible enough to realise that your father would be delighted to have such a distinguished son-in-law.”
“I know, but no one ever thinks about me. After all, I have to marry him, not Papa. And what about him?”
“I have always admired your intelligence. Indeed I am quite certain, from what you told me in your last letter
