A Dangerous Love
“After this morning, he had no idea what to make of the woman at all. She’d endured his criticisms with surprising equanimity. She’d even laughed at him, as if she’d guessed his tactics.She probably had. He gained hourly proof that the woman was even more clever than he’d given her credit for. She’d run Swan Park adequately, despite her eccentric methods. Granted, he wouldn’t have painted the outside of the dairy a periwinkle blue to compensate for the “dull” white on the inside. But the facilit...y itself was scrupulously clean and seemed to have a superior output, judging from the cheese she’d made him sample.He wouldn’t have hired as grooms three itinerant actors from Stratford-upon-Avon, who at first seemed incapable of anything but reciting As You Like It for milady’s pleasure. But they’d done a decent enough job with the stables when one considered that her horseflesh served only to carry her and her sisters about the estate and into Stratford.With such knowledge of her capabilities, he couldn’t let her strange comment about leaving Swan Park pass with no explanation.MoreLess
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