“Is that what you and your cousin are? Ambassadors?” “We could be,” I said. I was not yet ready to admit I had made a disastrous mistake in coming here; I did not know how that would tip the balance of my precarious situation. But then Arthur astonished me. He glanced at Simon, and without altering his tone, said, “It seems very strange to appoint a man who is in love with a young woman as her chaperone. But I know little of Yorkshire.”
