He spoke in such a loud voice that Sacha said,
“If you speak like that, your grandmother and, I am sure, Tomkins, will be very angry with me for exciting you.”
“I am not excited,” the Duke snapped.
“Well, whatever you like to call it, you are not keeping quiet as the doctors ordered.”
“I thought that you were my doctor now. You have certainly assumed that position!”
Sacha laughed.
“Now you are frightening me. If you say very much more, I am quite certain that your grandmother will send me back by the next train!”
The Duke smiled and she thought that if his eyes were not bandaged it would transform his face.
“That is something to be avoided at all costs,” he said. “Shall I say that I am not only enjoying having you here but am fascinated and intrigued as to how very different you ar
