“You must not call him my ‘young man’. It is true that he lived near my home when I was young and we used to dance together at the Hunt Balls, but once I had met your father, I never thought of him again.”
“But I am sure he thought of you!” Zorina countered incorrigibly.
Later, when they were travelling in a very comfortable drawing room coach attached to the train they had boarded at Ostend, Zorina realised that she had been right in thinking that Lord Melbray still admired her mother.
He certainly made every effort to amuse and interest her and, as the journey progressed, Zorina reflected that she had not seen her mother look so happy for a long time.
It was difficult, however, for her to smile and talk with the rest of the party.
This consisted of the Leothian Foreign Secretary and
