It made me like him all the more for it, though.” I had not considered that he would need time to mourn his loss. “At least he is finally warming up to Fen. Lately, we’ve been discussing how to ensure that Fenimore learns not to do his business in the house.”īeth groaned.
Does Westcliffe read you poetry?”Ĭlaire laughed softly. When we take our daily walks through Hyde Park, he recites poetry. “Because I’m being courted by a very romantic man. “Oh, you are quite the romantic.”īeth smiled. I just want you to be cautious.”Ĭlaire rolled her eyes. “But sometimes what we think is right, isn’t. “What happened with you isn’t going to happen with me.” “Perhaps because I thought if I’d been given a choice, I’d have chosen another, and now I realize that marrying Westcliffe was the correct thing to do.” Why do you have such a difficult time believing that?”Ĭlaire sighed. You wanted a choice, and you seem to have very quickly settled on one.” “Which is the reason that it is important for you to consider all suitors.
“What choice did you have? A woman is supposed to obey her husband.” I should not have accepted exile so docilely.” “Are you glad you came to London?”Ĭlaire bit her lower lip, then nodded. “You seem so remarkably happy,” Beth said. She glanced up as Beth flounced down beside her. Another suitor, the third son of an earl, had begun calling on Beth, although she still favored Greenwood above all others. Leo had begun painting a portrait of her. Beth had survived her time with the duchess remarkably well. A week had passed since she and Westcliffe had returned from the seaside. Claire sat on the ground in the garden, pulling a red stick on a string, chuckling as Fen jumped on it and attacked it with such vigor.
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