14/16 I think you'll be more effective alone. It will make Osterley feel more helpless." "Very well, sir," said Pollyooly cheerfully. She had the advantage of going to it in utter fearlessness. She knew the duke: he had been at Ricksborough Court during ten days of her stay there; and she had seen something of him every day. Also there had been the second and more violent meeting in Piccadilly when he had picked her up and carried her off to Ricksborough House under the firm conviction that she was his lost daughter. |