“And now, Yvonne,” Gerry said, “I have brought my sister, Carmella, here because we need your help and you know as well as I do how fastidious the Marquis is.”
Mademoiselle Yvonne laughed.
“If you ’ope that your sister will fascinate that ‘mountain of ice’, you are wasting your time! When ’e sits in the Royal Box, looking with those disdainful eyes, the whole theatre goes cold, I am glad for the moment I do not ’ave to see them and I am very ’appy just acting for my Lord.”
Gerry coughed and said quickly,
“My sister knows you are on the stage, Yvonne, and that is why you will be able to help her act the part of a very sophisticated beauty for the two days that we have been invited to Ingleton Hall.”
Mademoiselle did not speak and he went on with a warning glance at Carmella,
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