Unable to settle back to sleep, I got up, sat on the toilet and squinted through the blinds at the brick facades of the houses in the estate behind us. Their rooftops were slick with rain, newly planted cherry trees precarious in the wind, the pavements below lit up by the smudgy glow of street l...
Mary groaned. “You’re not,” said Jane, smoothing her brow. “You’re just in love.” “With an earl!” she cried, lifting her head from her friend’s lap. “With a member of the peerage. His country house was built two centuries ago. He has more money than...
They educate. Their greatest ambition should be the respect of their employers. Hoping for anything else is foolish. —Miss Carrington’s Guide for Governesses Edward sat in the back of a cab, waiting to be delivered to the doorstep of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Formby. The we...