Vermillion (The Hundred Days Series Book 1) - Plot & Excerpts
It would have been a comfortable arrangement except that Lady Louisa, refusing to allow either half to be lopsided, insisted on planting herself at the foot of the table. At eight feet or so, it was not over-long like many formal tables, but it was enough that it put Louisa an awkward distance from the meal, and with her cotton-eared hearing, well outside the sphere of conversation. Kate noticed that Louisa did not seem to mind. She smiled and nodded at regular and sometimes oddly-timed intervals, chewing and serving herself with the same regal authority she might have felt seated in Matthew's spot. Her occasional well-meaning slights aside, Kate decided the tiny magpie of a woman really was endearing. Along with Louisa, she too felt skipped by the conversation. For several minutes now, Lady Webb had shared all sorts of news from London with her son. She was not certain Matthew was any more interested than she in what his mother had to say, but at least he could put it into context. Adelaide was smacking a fist gently against her palm.
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