Intrigue (Daughters Of Mannerling 2) - Plot & Excerpts
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Early that evening, Lady Beverley was startled to receive the intelligence that Mr Robert Sommerville had called again. But she had finally heard Jessica’s story of her visit to Mannerling and found nothing to be elated about, although she had kept her own council. For one moment, she felt it her duty to warn Jessica that contrary to popular opinion, a kiss did not mean a marriage. She considered Mrs Devers’s treatment of her daughter disgraceful, not recognizing in such haughty behaviour much of her own. And so she graciously welcomed Robert, seeing in him some sort of thread that joined the Beverleys to Mannerling. Robert made general conversation and then said, seemingly idly, that as the evening was warm, he would be grateful if Miss Jessica could find the time to show him the garden again, as he had had to rush off the day before. Jessica tried to signal with her eyes that she did not want to, but Lady Beverley said, ‘By all means.’ ‘I thought you had seen enough of our gardens .
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