CHAPTER TWOMalvina and Nanny arrived in good time at Silstone House in Park Lane at three o’clock in the afternoon.
All the way Malvina was thinking out her plan for travelling to Paris.
She was very determined to see the man her father wanted her to marry without his being aware he was being observed.
They were greeted by the butler at Silstone House, who said somewhat reproachfully,
“We were not expecting your Ladyship here. His Lordship made no mention of your visit before he left.”
“I had an invitation from one of my friends to come to London to a party she is giving, but I thought perhaps it would worry Papa when he had so much to think about, so I did not tell him what I was planning to do.”
The butler smiled.
He had known Lady Malvina ever since she was born and he had spoil
