The Duke And His Four Wards
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All four were absorbed in nodding and waving to friends and acquaintances as the lights went out.
The first act consisted of a short piece by a little-known Italian composer, as the prelude to the opera itself, which would fill the second and third acts, before another short piece ended the performance. Margaret sat, happily absorbed in the spectacle, beside and slightly in from of her guardian. She was blissfully content. She had merely made a comment to Felix a week before that she would like to visit the opera. Two days later, he had arranged it all. Now she sat, superbly elegant in a silver satin slip overlaid with bronze lace, and rebelled in the music, conscious, despite her preoccupation, of the warmth of the Duke of Twyford’s blue gaze on her bare shoulders.