Chapter SixLuncheon was finished and it seemed to Vanola as if everything about it had been part of a dream in which she had been enveloped ever since she had left the Duke last night.
She had fallen asleep with his words ringing in her ears and it seemed to mingle with her father’s music so that they were indivisible.
When she had woken up, having asked Mrs. Bates to call her at noon, she had the joyous, excited feeling that something wonderful was going to happen which she had not known, she thought, since she was a child.
She had her new pretty gown to wear, which she had bought at the second hand shop and a bonnet that was fashionable and she knew on this occasion that she would not feel so out of place in the Duke’s magnificent house.
Before she was ready Billy came upstairs to sa
