Chapter ThreeDelysia realised after a while that Hugo Ludgrove was flirting with her.
But she was so worried about Fleur that she found it difficult to attend to him or listen to what he was saying.
She could see the clock on the mantelpiece from where she was sitting and, when the hands reached eleven o’clock, she said,
“I hope you will not think it rude, Mr. Ludgrove, but I am tired and the doctor, who made me come to London instead of going to Cheltenham with my father, insisted that I should take things very easy and have as much rest as possible.”
“I do understand,” Hugo Ludgrove replied, “and I have heard how devotedly you nursed your father after his dreadful accident.”
Delysia realised that, while they were talking, Fleur and Lord Sheldon had gone out onto the balcony that ove
