Microsoft Word - Sherwood, Valerie - Nightsong - Plot & Excerpts
You, my little sister? I knew that Christabel Willing was the Silver Wench, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined that Christabel Willing was Carolina Lightfoot!" Penny nearly doubled up with laughter. "Indeed I can hardly credit that you are the woman called Rouge," Carolina countered ruefully. The two women were sitting in Carolina's cabin, which she had hastily offered to share with "Rouge." Penny was lounging lazily back against the bunk with one long leg stretched out, her bare heel resting on the table in a pose her mother would have described sharply as "outrageous," and Carolina was perched on the edge of her chair, studying her beautiful sister, whom the family had so long regarded as "lost." "Whatever happened to you, Penny? Why didn't we ever hear from you?" "A great deal happened to me." Penny's brilliant smile flashed. "And do you really think the aristrocratic Lightfoot clan would have welcomed the news that a daughter of theirs was the notorious 'Rouge' of New Providence?
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