Yet she would be twenty-one in two months’ time.
It struck him as it had never done before that he should by now have had her presented at Court.
And she should certainly take her place among the debutantes who attended all the parties in the Season and made sure they received a great deal of attention whenever they appeared in public.
Because of his wife’s protracted illness and now her death, Lord Waverstone had been in the country since Malva had left school.
She had seemed totally happy riding her father’s horses and attending to her mother who she adored.
When he had left home this morning in answer to the letter from his friend asking to meet him at White’s Club, he had never for one moment thought that this was the reason why the Earl wanted to see him so urgently.
Yet now he
