Love Climbs In by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788671095
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd
Published: 2018-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

By the time her carriage had reached the end of the drive Lady Dilys was shaking with anger.

She could not believe it possible that the Marquis had not prevented her from leaving.

On other occasions she had threatened a dramatic exit to gain her own way and had always been prevented from leaving at the last moment.

Once, she remembered, the gentleman in question had run after her coach and sprang into it when it was actually moving quite quickly to seat himself beside the fair charmer who had captured his heart.

On that occasion she had allowed the carriage to travel for nearly a mile before she had with a well-simulated reluctance given orders for her horses to be turned round.

Incredibly the Marquis had not followed her and she had the uncomfortable feeling that she might never see him again.

She had actually been slightly perturbed, but not overwhelmingly so, when the Marquis had not returned to London and to her side as quickly as she had expected.

When he had left London, she was quite certain that it would be a question of his being away for only a day or two and then irresistibly she would have drawn him back by the strong fiery passion that linked them to each other.

That the Marquis could suddenly become immune to her blandishments and that he could assume an indifference to her pleading that she might stay with him seemed so unlikely that Lady Dilys could not credit it that had really occurred.

But, as her horses plodded on, passing through the dusty lanes to reach the highway, she told herself almost despairingly that she had lost the one man who mattered more at this moment in her life than any of the others.

She had made up her mind to marry the Marquis, not only because he was the richest and most handsome of any of her lovers, but also because he genuinely attracted her.

She liked his recklessness which echoed her own, his daring and his spirit of fun, which made him so different in temperament from her other suitors.

She had decided some time ago that she would marry him. There had, however, seemed no need for haste until after the scene at Carlton House, where she had learnt with some dismay that if she went to Brighton, the Prince Regent would not acknowledge her presence there.

Lady Dilys admitted to herself frankly that she had gone too far and had not only antagonised the Prince Regent himself, but, far more dangerous, aroused the animosity of Lady Conyngham.

While Lady Dilys believed that she could do anything with any man who was not blind, she knew that where women were concerned it was a very different story.

Women mistrusted and disapproved of her and, as Lady Conyngham had supplanted Lady Hertford in the Prince Regent’s affections and he was becoming more and more infatuated with her, there was no doubt that her approval was very necessary to those who wished to be invited either to Carlton House or to the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.

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