Chapter 18

All four men merely nodded instead of bowing when they took their leave, although Avery did send him an apologetic look. Leander wasn’t sorry to see them go.

For a brief moment, he considered going into the card room, but he was as unfamiliar with card games as he was with the dances. What he truly wanted to do was return to the quiet of the library in order to think over what he’d learned about the Earl of Blackstone.

Leander considered the rumors about the Norvilles to be just that. Apparently no one knew what had actually happened, but the talk about Blackstone’s interest in men sounded like accepted fact. The subject drew Leander like a moth to a flame, despite the fact that he’d never heard anyone speak of such things before in his life. There had been tantalizing hints of it in his Greek and Latin studies, but any details had been glossed over. Leander had always been compelled to discern more about those details.