CHAPTER EIGHTValeria could only think that he had arranged an assignation with someone.
She recalled the intimate way he had spoken with Lady Mere and then mused about her reputation.
Could he be going to visit her? Could Lady Mere actually be waiting for him in Green Park?
She was conscious of a sick feeling in her stomach.
Wishing she had gone to bed, she went upstairs.
All the time she was trying to give Mary, her maid, a lively account of the evening, Valeria could not banish the picture in her mind of the pretty and effervescent Lady Mere talking with a seemingly enraptured Lord Waterford.
It took her a long time to fall asleep that night.
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The days leading up to Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Celebrations grew more and more filled with activity.
Susan recovered from her headache
