A Match Of Hearts: A Regency Romance - Plot & Excerpts
‘Thank Goodness!’ exclaimed Zanthe, pulling aside the curtains in the breakfast-parlour to gaze upon the view across the open fields and away towards the downs. ‘If it had been raining, you may count upon it that half our audience would have decided to stay at home in their own warm, dry drawing-room.’ ‘Very true, dearest.’ Margery poured out coffee serenely and smiled with an air of abstraction. ‘And, let us be honest, they would not have missed much. Apart from Susanna and the Signora, of course. I promise you I don’t know where to look when Mrs Preston is reciting that interminable Cowper poem. She has such a problem with her adenoids, poor woman, and then the corners of her mouth are all wet. Ugh!’ ‘You are unkind, Zanthe! She performs with a great deal of feeling. And, you know, the Admiral was shipwrecked once, and that is why the poem means so much to her.’ ‘Fiddle! He was stranded for two days on an island off the coast of Scotland surrounded by his entire crew.
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