Clifford Stockley smashed the second-floor window of a respectable house in a fashionable part of London with his Hessian boot and jumped out onto an empty street in an ear-splitting shower of glass a second before the door to the room above burst open and Lord Granger stormed his daughter’s bedchamber, bellowing like a bull, in order to get his hands on the scoundrel audacious enough to have found his way inside its well-protected walls.
