“Can we afford the rent for it?” Weena asked.
“We can afford it and it will make us noticed which is the right way to start. Besides which, as you well know, I have the list of Prince Feodor’s friends to write to, to tell them how eager we are to meet them.”
“They might easily think us rather pushy,” Weena commented.
“Not the way I will word it,” her brother replied. “With our titles and an excellent address to introduce us, we will soon be riding high in English Society.”
He spoke with such enthusiasm in his voice and in such a positive manner that Weena could only hope that he was not exaggerating the situation.
And that he was in fact doing the right thing rather than playing a game of pretence or what her mother would have thought to be a series of lies.
Yet what was the alternat
