The Trouble With Virtue: A Comfortable Wife\A Lady By Day - Plot & Excerpts
Following Henrietta and Geoffrey up Lady Caldecott’s stairs, Antonia on his arm, Philip cast a jaundiced glance over the crowd about them. Their first two evenings of the Little Season had been spent at mere parties, relatively quiet affairs at which the guests had concentrated on catching up with the summer’s developments rather than actively embarking on any new intrigues. Lady Caldecott’s Grand Ball marked the end of such simple entertainments. They had yet to gain the ballroom door, but at least three of his peers had already taken due note of Antonia, serenely beautiful if somewhat tense by his side. Even at a distance, he could detect the gleam in their eyes. He didn’t need to look to know she presented a stunning spectacle, garbed in another of Lafarge’s creations, a shimmering sheath of pale gold silk trimmed at neckline and hem with delicate lace edged with tiny pearls. Despite his intentions, his eyes were drawn to where her mother’s pearls lay about her throat, their priceless sheen matched by her ivory skin.
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