Chapter 31

She recalled that last evening perfectly. She had known he was coming for her answer, and during the afternoon she had finally made up her mind--balancing the points for and against. And the result had been against. Hedderton's father, she had decided, was more than likely to live another thirty years, and that was too long to wait even for one of the oldest titles in England. The fact that he was utterly infatuated with her was his misfortune and not her fault. And so without the smallest tinge of compunction she …