A Notorious Countess Confesses (PG7) - Plot & Excerpts
Henny greeted Eve. “And then you rolled down a hill and came to a stop in a ditch. Did those women take you out into the woods and steal your reticule? I didna like the looks of the big one.”The big one being Mrs. Sneath. Henny was only partially joking. She and Mrs. Sneath had recognized something very similar in each other and had instantly treated each other with wary respect, the sort two master criminals might have for each other.“Will you help me out of this dress, Henny? Do you think we can salvage it?”Henny scrutinized her with an eye honed by long experience with all manner of clothes, from filmy, bawdy pirate costumes worn on the stage to the most glorious of evening gowns, including the one that had caused a balcony plummet. A triumph, that one, as far as Henny was concerned.“And what is … did ye dance with a dog? Now that’s one thing ye never did get up to at the Green Apple theater stage. I wager there’s money in it.”“There was indeed a dog!” Evie reminisced.“I’ll sponge the worst of the stains now and really have a go at it on laundry day.
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