How To Rescue A Rake (Book Club Belles Society 3) - Plot & Excerpts
Her mother was in the shadows of the hall, waiting with her hands clasped before her as Diana came through the front door. “Where have you been?” “I was at the book society meeting, Mama. I told you before I left.” Her fingertips felt odd, as if pricked by hundreds of tiny pins at once, making the removal of her gloves suddenly a difficult enterprise. The door to the parlor was open and she knew her mother must have been in there, watching through the window as she and Nathaniel came down the High Street. “You know very well what I mean, Diana. Where have you been with him?” Struggling now with the wet knot in her bonnet ribbons, Diana replied, “Mama, Captain Sherringham offered his horse and escorted me home. It is nothing to fuss about.” “Nothing to fuss about?” Her mother advanced, eyes wide and dark with fury. “A lady’s reputation can only be lost once, Diana! The entire village will have seen you on that man’s horse in such a state of dishabille.
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