"Beautiful, bewitching, beguiling, bewildering ... " Kendall Winterborne, the third Earl of Stillmore, muttered another word that began with B under his breath and flung the entire contents of the brandy snifter down his throat in one gulp. Then he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and glanced at Chasens in the tarnished, fly-specked mirror.

"Are you serious?"

"Yes, sah, there's a lady to see you."

Babs. Barbara Langley, Lady Barbara Langley. Well, well, ...