Chapter 2A few days before their prospective departure, Tobias learned from Meg that they were not only to have Betty’s company in Bath. The flamboyant actress Miss Fifi Fontayne, famed even more for her poor choice in suitors than her acting career, had been asked back to the Theater Royal for a starring role as a secondary female lead.
Unbeknown to their disapproving mother, Tobias’ scapegrace military brother Tom had followed his sometime mistress like a moth to a flame and was temporarily residing in the spa town. Tom seemed to be on leave so often, Tobias wondered if his commanding officer was trying to get rid of him.
However, even this interesting news did not dissuade Tobias from anticipating their time away. Having heard from both Meg and her husband of Fifi’s outrageous antics
