The duchess smiled, and consented to sit down.
"But, dear Duchess," suggested Garth in his most soothing voice, "the county does not know Madame Velma was to be here.

It was a profound secret.

You were to trot her out at the end.

Lady Ingleby called her your 'surprise packet.'" Myra came out from behind her garden hat, and the duchess nodded at her approvingly.
"Quite true," she said.

"That was the lovely part of it.