That way she avoided the other guests thronged in the drawing room and reached her chamber without being intercepted. “You’ve heard?” she asked Celia, at last able to give vent to her anxiety as she closed the door behind her. “About Lord Kincade’s unexpected arrival?” Celia tutted. “Yes, milady. A most unfortunate development.” “I so hoped he wouldn’t speak to me until I’d had a chance to ask you how things stood between him and your mistress. But naturally he approached. He was deliberately taunting me, I’m sure of it, odious man! I wanted the ground to swallow me up.” Katrina threw herself onto the bed, still acutely embarrassed by the incident. “Everyone was watching us, although of course they pretended not to, and I had no idea how I was supposed to behave.” “That’s not to be wondered at. About people watching you, I mean.” Celia pulled a disapproving face. “There’s nothing the gentry enjoys more than a little salacious gossip.” “Yes, so I just discovered.
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