Chapter FourLord Dorrington, after leaving the Foreign Office, proceeded to White’s Club, where he had arranged to have luncheon with Lord Alvanley.
He found his Lordship seated at a round table with Lord Yarmouth, Lord Worcester and Beau Brummel.
As Lord Dorrington approached, George Brummel looked at him with an appraising eye until he noticed the diamond pin in his cravat.
“I am dazzled, Dorrington!” he said sarcastically, putting his fingers up to his eyes.
Lord Dorrington smiled.
“I know!” he exclaimed, “‘no jewellery’ is one of your most famous axioms and it is in fact engraved on my heart!”
“Never knew you had one!” Lord Worcester interposed.
“It has been a debatable point for years,” Lord Dorrington replied, “but Brummel and I do not parade our vacillating organs, bruised an
