‘How could you be so unkind—Miss Chaceley? Visiting the place—and then leaving before I could so much as catch a glimpse of you!’ Verena found her own breath catching in her throat, as if she had been running as hard as he. Her pulses were flurried, and it was all she could do to maintain the out...
‘She said as she would see you in the Assembly Rooms later, miss,’ added the girl. Verity thanked her and escaped to her little bedchamber, glad of a few minutes of solitude to collect her disordered thoughts. How much more discomfiture must she bear on account of this wretched Mr Haverigg? She c...
‘Say then, Jacques, you have followed him?’ she demanded of the black-garbed footman. Jack Kimble nodded eagerly. ‘Aye, miss, like a shadow. I done just what you asked.’ Melusine was quite aware of the effect she had on the young lad. She was sorry for his liking her too much for his own good, bu...
Her chamber was on the second floor, conveniently located next to the back stair leading down to the dowager’s apartments on the floor below. More satisfactory, she had only to exit by the other door and traverse a corridor or two to arrive, through an unused playroom, at the quarters allocated t...
Clearly they had so lost their common sense in admiration of the viscount that they had supposed he would somehow take care of them all without resorting to this extreme. But if Mr Thornbury’s attempts to allay their alarm succeeded, Isadora thought cynically, Roborough would very quickly recover...
She was herself bestriding a raking bay, whose sidlings and tossings evidenced his uncertain temper. The Winsfords were still borrowing from Lord Rossendale’s stables, until, as the nabob expressed it, his experienced daughter should have learned her way about and might choose her own cattle. Pen...