Johnnie may have played the field, but in the marriage market, he was spoken for. He was unofficially engaged to Lady Anne Coke, now Lady Glenconner, the nineteen-year-old slim, blond, and witty daughter of the Earl of Leicester, a Norfolk neighbor at the palatial Holkham Hall and friend of the Fermoys, whose violin recitals Ruth accompanied on the piano. A formal announcement was expected any minute.
