She realised, because she was extremely intelligent, that she was at the moment at a complete disadvantage.
If she defied the law, she would have no support and would finally have to agree to his outrageous idea.
She wanted to scream and she wanted to hit him.
She wanted to fight for her freedom.
But she knew that she was powerless to do so.
She therefore slowly and deliberately cut herself a piece of cake and put it on her plate before she said,
“I must say, Step-papa, that this is a great shock to me as soon as I have arrived home. Perhaps we should go into more detail and you could explain to me more fully why the Duke has come into our lives or rather into my life without my having met him.”
“But of course you will meet him,” Cyril Warner replied, “but he is in the Midlands at t
