“Drink a little. It will do you good.”
Although he had diluted the brandy, she felt it moving fierily down her throat and gave an involuntary shudder.
At the same time the feeling of faintness and sense of collapse that had made her cry seemed to evaporate.
She tried to wipe away her tears with the back of her hand and he gave her his handkerchief.
It made her think of how he had bandaged Rufus’s paw in the wood.
For the first time since she had rushed headlong through Berkeley Square to Arrow House, she looked down nervously to see if Rufus was with her.
He was curled up at her feet and she gave a little cry of relief.
“Rufus – saved – me!” she said to the Earl.
He put his arm round her shoulders.
“Now, tell me everything that happened from the very beginning.”
She wiped away th
