The Unknown Ajax (by Georgette Heyer)

I do like re-reading Georgette Heyer’s light historical romance novels regularly. It’s only five years since I last read ‘The Unknown Ajax’, but even when I recall the basic outline of a story, there are always plenty of scenes or conversations which I had entirely forgotten. There are others which I enjoy all the more for remembering them as they approach.
Hugo is the hero of this book, but we don’t meet him immediately. Instead we meet his estranged family: his grandfather, a couple of his a...