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“Happiness and relief made him feel almost giddy with contentment. He had seen both mother and child—for a space of, perhaps, twenty seconds—and could now confirm to anyone interested that Natalie was safe and the Chases had their baby boy at last. He hoped they would take his word for it. Anyone who wanted to see for themselves would jolly well have to wait for morning. He had achieved his own glimpse by ducking in unannounced, but Malcolm was now closely guarding his wife and son’s slumber.
Humming, he headed past the drawing room and continued down the next flight of stairs, hoping Cynthia would have returned to the library after dinner. To his disappointment, the room contained only Lady Hannah Chase, stretched out on a sofa and morosely leafing through a slender volume of sonnets. Cynthia must have retired, very correctly, to the drawing room with the rest of the crowd. For a lady supposedly engaging in an illicit romance, she certainly was difficult to separate from the pack.
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