Summary

In Chapter 10, the author writes that she dreamed she saw disappointment on Lyle’s face, an expression that broke her heart when he met her. Despite her fear that he would reject her, she decided to take advantage of the chance to meet him because she had loved him for so long.

In the restored opera house where Lyle’s concert would be performed, the author was taken downstairs to a sitting room. When Lyle first turned to look at the author, she burst into tears. Lyle had a look on his face as if he had been left alone with a mentally ill person. His jaw dropped when he understood that she was Duchess. He said he had believed Duchess was either “a little old lady or a gay man!” (77). She asked why everyone thought she was a gay man. Lyle first...