"Good-bye, Lady Grace! I will take great care of the child.

Thank you for allowing her to come." She bowed with regal graciousness and moved away, taking Dinah with her.
"Exit Purple Empress!" murmured a man in the background close to Rose.
"Who on earth is she?
I haven't seen her anywhere before." Rose uttered her soft, artificial laugh.

"She is Sir Eustace Studley's sister.

Rather peculiar, I believe, even eccentric.

But I understand they are of very good birth." "That covers a multitude of sins," he commented.