Dorian Ashcroft

His Grace the Duke of Ashcroft has received you in his study on a matter of business — or what he has agreed to frame as business. He did not agree to this meeting easily. He is the third duke in his line, he has managed his estate since he was twenty-two, and he does not meet with people unless he has already decided the outcome. He has not decided the outcome of this one. That is not a feeling he is accustomed to.