The Wicked And Wonderful Miss Merlin - Plot & Excerpts
Leaving her sitting room, where she had meant to receive Lord Brough and offer him tea or refreshments, she went down to the kitchen and picked up the basket she’d prepared earlier. It contained jars of her preserves and jams, sweet biscuits, a ham, some fresh eggs from her special chickens, and a crock of farm butter, also a small bottle of brandy – for medicinal purposes, of course. Nanny Sylvester loved a drop of brandy in her tea before she went to bed, because it helped her to sleep. Leaving the schoolhouse by the back door, Samantha walked through the gardens, past the hives that gave her such wonderful honey, remembering to thank them as she passed, because the bees liked that and gave more honey. She had relaxed after so many hours of tension and she sang a little French verse as she walked, enjoying the evening sunshine. Perhaps Lord Brough would just go after his sister, take her away from the school and leave it at that…and yet that might be the worst scenario, because if he told everyone she was not fit to have the care of his sister she might have other parents taking their daughters away.
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