A Ghost in Monte Carlo

now he was not certain how near he had been to defeat or annihilation. He was free, that was all that mattered

But now he was safe! Safe and free to return to Cheveron

she asked him to behave honourably towards her, he must do so, whatever the cost to himself

that if she appealed to him to save her good name

had brought him that he realised how terribly afraid he had been of telling her that their love affair was at an end

It was only now in the utter relief that Violet’s decision

that she was weeping not only for Robert but her lost youth

but when they did, they shook her from head to foot, a tempest of utter misery such as she had never experienced in the whole of her life before

him shut the front door and walk down the garden steps. She sat very still, listening for a long time

She heard Robert’s feet crossing the hall, she heard