His mood seemed to have eased, and a somewhat chastened Mrs Penelope Carrington gratefully seized on the tankard of ale, and bread and cheese, that he’d sent out of the taproom for her. Hugo was very, very angry at her for blackmailing him into returning her to London. Pen could not resist an impish smile at the memory of his face when he had discovered her sitting in his curricle armed with a bundle of rather indiscreet letters to her Russian friend, Countess Griaznova. Pen was determined to escape her enforced rustication by returning to London with her old friend and his current courtship of a rather plain heiress was too fragile an undertaking for him to risk Pen making the contents public. Pen Carrington was here because she was making a hasty escape from the home of her brother-in-law Sebastian Carrington. He had collected her from London not a week go, after it had been brought to his attention that the widow of his brother Mark had managed to set the tabbies of the ton by the ears once more by taking part in a carriage race through St James’.
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