Driving towards Berkeley Square in the uncrested carriage that Mr. Curtis had hired for her when she wished to be anonymous, Darcia knew that she was behaving outrageously.
She was well aware that it was inconceivable for a debutante to go alone to a bachelor’s house and, if anyone was aware of it, it would ruin her reputation.
debutanteShe remembered how careful her father had been in Paris that no one should know that she was visiting him and she knew that he would be very angry if he was aware of what she was doing now.
At the same time she could not now back out and then suddenly be conventional when her relationship with the Earl had already become different from anything she could imagine having with anyone else.
The gentlemen who danced attendance on her at the balls and sent he
