She had no idea exactly what this meant, but she was quite sure that David drank much more than was good for him.
She thought too that he must have spent a great deal of his time with just the sort of women who her mother would not have approved of under any circumstances
And yet it was her mother, and her father for that matter, who had spoilt David ever since he was born.
For some unknown and strange reason that the doctors had no explanation for, the ninth Earl of Blakeney and his wife had been married for fifteen years before, to their astonishment and joy, they had produced a son.
Because David was so good-looking a boy and they were so thrilled to have him, he had ruled the household from his cot.
It was totally inevitable therefore that he should think that the whole world was
