“That is true,” Celita murmured.
“By the time the Season is over, Lord Waterforde will be my partner,” the Duc continued, “and if, which, of course, is very likely, you find someone you love or feel that you don’t wish to marry a Frenchman, we can terminate our association, which anyway has been secret, with no hard feelings from anyone.”
While he was talking, Celita was looking at him with wide eyes.
At first she thought that the whole idea was impossible, ridiculous, absurd!
Then, as the Duc finished speaking, she saw how clever his idea was.
Lord Waterforde was very fond of her.
He would certainly not wish to upset her mother by quarrelling over the fact that she was engaged to the man he had wanted as his own son-in-law.
As the Duc had said, by the end of the Season, their racin
