Chapter Three“His Grace isn’t down yet, my Lord,” the butler said as Lord Poolbrook came in through the front door.
‘Brooky’ as he was always known to his contemporaries, was one of the Duke’s oldest friends and his closest.
They had been at Eton together, gone on to Oxford University in the same year and then served in the same Regiment.
But while the Duke was regarded with awe even by men of his own age, Brooky was universally popular.
He was always cheerful, always prepared to make the best of any circumstances and the Duke found him a companion he not only trusted with his closest secrets but who was at times of more help than anyone else he knew.
Brooky was therefore included in everything the Duke did, whether it was on the Racecourse or in the gay amusing world in which, becaus
