The Husband Hunters by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Published: 2014-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

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The following day it was late before anyone was aroused from sleep and actually it was Andrina who came downstairs first to find the hall filled with flowers of every description.

There were bouquets, baskets, bowls and sprays addressed in almost equal numbers to Cheryl and Sharon and, to her surprise, some for herself.

There were two magnificent bouquets from the gentlemen who had sat either side of her at dinner, two from gentlemen she could not remember, and one huge basket of white orchids, of which she knew the donor before she opened the note.

The Earl’s writing was like himself, Andrina thought, dark, uneven and somehow slightly sinister.

“To Andrina, who has captured both my heart and mind.”

She tore up the card and threw it in the wastepaper basket.

‘I cannot think why the one man in London I really dislike should be the one who pursues me,’ Andrina thought.

“You have certainly all been a sensation as far as floral tributes are concerned,” Lady Evelyn proclaimed when she appeared just before luncheon, “but flowers die. What you girls need is something lasting.”

“What is that?” Cheryl asked.

“An engagement ring!” Lady Evelyn replied. “Preferably of diamonds!”

“Oh, an engagement ring,” Cheryl said and there was something in the way she spoke that made Andrina look at her sharply.

Could the Marquis have said anything last night she wondered.

She did not wish to press her younger sister, but she felt excitedly that Cheryl was undoubtedly thinking of marriage and it was obvious that the only man she could have in mind was the Marquis.

Sharon collected the cards from her flowers immediately after luncheon and put them away in the little satin reticule she carried on her arm.

“Are you not going to tell us the names of your admirers?” Lady Evelyn enquired.

“I am too tired to worry about them now,” Sharon said in a voice that did not sound as if she was at all tired, “but later this afternoon I shall have to write and thank them.”

“I think we can forget about ‘thank you’ letters for today,” Lady Evelyn said. “I thought we might go driving.”

“That would be lovely!” Andrina said. “But first I had better take the jewellery we borrowed last night back to Mr. Robson.”

She put the stars that Sharon had worn in her hair and the necklace that had encircled Cheryl’s white neck back in their boxes and went along the corridor to Mr. Robson’s office.

“Thank you very much, Miss Andrina,” he said, taking the jewellery from her. “It’s very kind of you to be so prompt in returning them. I don’t mind telling you it worries me when such things are not safely in my keeping. The Duke trusts me and if anything was lost I should have no one to blame but myself.”

“That is a horrible feeling, as we all know,” Andrina smiled.

“May I tell you how beautiful you looked last night, Miss Andrina?” Mr. Robson asked. “I thought, as I watched you dancing, you had been quite right in thinking you needed no jewels.

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