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Her father might be a peer of the realm, but he believed that the only privilege his title and money gave him was that of helping those less well-off than himself. Besides, before her marriage to an English Lord, Eleanor’s mother had been a famous Russian ballet dancer, and she always claimed to be a Bolshevik at heart.
He wanted to use her, just as he’d used Ella Rowsley, car mechanic turned spy.
She was not his puppet any more and wouldn’t let him pull her strings, but when an order will save your life, it’s as well to do as you’re told.
“All women go to the University of Life. Attendance there provides a far better education than any of these hooray boys ever got.”
A lot of things had changed since the war, and mostly for the better where women were concerned, but men still had far greater freedom and rights. Men would always be able to go where they liked, when they liked, and do as they pleased short of breaking the law.
