Christmas this year was far exceeding her expectations. Together she and Alex had collected holly and mistletoe to decorate the house. They had visited the nearby village of Fortune’s Folly to buy fuel and candles and a Christmas turkey (a great improvement on the pickled scrag end of mutton that Mrs. Lubbock had been planning to serve on Christmas Day), they had taken long walks through the snowy countryside and they had attended church together, where the gossip about the arrival of Lady Melicent’s handsome husband, and his clear devotion to her, had barely died down sufficiently to allow the rector to deliver his sermon. They had taken dinner with the Duchess of Cole and with Major and Mrs. Falconer and had been very merry in company, for Mrs. Durham was so miraculously restored to health that she was even prepared to indulge in a game of Christmas charades. Alex, on seeing Melicent’s raw and chilblained hands, had bought her some rose-scented hand cream and a pair of exquisitely soft kid gloves, and had offered to help her with her household chores, which Melicent considered a sign of true devotion.
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