Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
As such, she stood behind a potted palm in a dark corner of the Carruth’s ballroom, a circumstance that had little to do with the repeated requests by her aunt to partner a spotty-faced boy. She was persuaded his governess should certainly arrive to carry him home to bed any moment, never mind that he was over six foot tall and, of all things, an earl. No, indeed, her hiding place afforded her the opportunity to glean much from the breathless conversations that sailed past her unawares. From these, she discerned that a recent contretemps on the dance floor had been occasioned by one Miss Ginerva Delacourt who was rumored to have said something unforgivably shocking. However, no one agreed on the words she spoke. Some said she had called her dancing partner, Lord Eggleston, a simpleton while others insisted that her words, in reference to his lordship’s mother, were “weighs a ton”. Under the circumstances, Elizabeth felt it was likely she had merely uttered “Mother Eggleston”
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