6/22 "I shall set about it at once, Your Grace. Have I Your Grace's leave to go ?" Monmouth nodded, and as Wade passed out, Ensign Cragg entered to announce Mr.Wilding and Mr.Trenchard.The Duke rose to his feet, his glance suddenly brightening. Fletcher and Grey rose with him; Ferguson paid no heed, absorbed in his task, which he industriously continued. "Admit them, sir." When they entered, Wilding coming first, his hat under his arm, the Duke sprang to meet him, a tall young figure, lithe and slender as a blade of steel, and of a steely strength for all his slimness. |