“In that case I shall have to go. You had best accompany me, Frank.”

“Very well. You have seen Lady Lavinia?”

Beneath the mask his Grace’s eyes narrowed.

“I have seen Lavinia. Also I have seen an old friend⁠—Lovelace by name.”

“The captain with the full-bottomed wig? Your friend, you say?”

“Did I say so? I should correct myself: a friend of my sister’s.”

“Indeed? Yes, I believe I have seen him in her company.”

Tracy smiled enigmatically.

“I daresay.”

“And what of you, Tracy?”