For Myself Alone: A Jane Austen Inspired Novel - Plot & Excerpts
We could not be away soon enough to suit me. And, but for the treasures there gained – my new friend Susan and my father’s improved health – I could have wished we had never entered the town’s fine environs at all. Indeed, we were within half an hour of our departure when an agitated Mr. Richard Pierce arrived in Pultney Street. My father, who supervised the loading of the carriage at the curb, would no doubt have turned him away. That would have been the end of it, had I not at the same moment emerged unawares from the front door. The unexpected sight of Richard sent a jolt of alarm right through me. Could I have retreated unobserved, I would have done so. But it was too late for that; he had seen me. “Jo, I must speak to you. Please!” Father moved to interpose himself. “I thought my daughter made her position perfectly clear in her letter, sir. She does not wish to see you,” he said firmly. “Never mind, Papa,” I said, recovered from my initial shock. “I can deal with this myself.
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