A Dangerous Madness
“So it made sense to find out what they could at the tavern Bellingham had frequented, before going on to speak to the mysterious, money-giving Mr. Wilson. Legge’s Tavern was less than five minutes from Mrs. Robarts’s house.
They pulled up across the road from it, and James watched the customers come and go for a few minutes, getting a feel for the place.
It would have been just the establishment an aspiring and self-conscious man like Bellingham would have been comfortable visiting.
It was clearly prosperous, with the right look for the level of income and standing of the people living nearby, and perfectly acceptable as a place a husband and wife dressed as he and Phoebe were to have a small mid-morning meal.
As he held out his hand to help her from the carriage, James tried to work out what was going through her head.
Something had happened after his attempt to kiss her. She had gone very quiet, and he hoped she wasn’t having second thoughts about him. Being kissed in a dirty old ca...rriage may not have been what she had in mind when she had offered to be his lover, but he’d thought she’d pressed back against him for a moment as they’d climbed into the carriage outside Mrs.MoreLess
They pulled up across the road from it, and James watched the customers come and go for a few minutes, getting a feel for the place.
It would have been just the establishment an aspiring and self-conscious man like Bellingham would have been comfortable visiting.
It was clearly prosperous, with the right look for the level of income and standing of the people living nearby, and perfectly acceptable as a place a husband and wife dressed as he and Phoebe were to have a small mid-morning meal.
As he held out his hand to help her from the carriage, James tried to work out what was going through her head.
Something had happened after his attempt to kiss her. She had gone very quiet, and he hoped she wasn’t having second thoughts about him. Being kissed in a dirty old ca...rriage may not have been what she had in mind when she had offered to be his lover, but he’d thought she’d pressed back against him for a moment as they’d climbed into the carriage outside Mrs.MoreLess
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