Finessing the Contessa (2013)
“I’m old enough to have a room on the first floor.” Julia placed her hands on her hips and glowered at Leah. “I’m not a baby.”
“Then I suggest you don’t behave like one.”
“But this is a nursery. And nurseries are for babies. I want to go home!”
“Mind your manners, Lady Julia,” Miss Dawson said.
Leah shared a glance with Beth, not unsympathetic to the child’s dilemma. It must seem very strange to her, to be removed from everything she was used to, and she was expressing her vulner...ability in the only way she knew how.
“You can take your lesson with Miss Dawson in here, free from distraction.” Leah hadn’t been up here very often. The schoolroom adjoined the nursery. It contained several scarred and scuffed desks that Hal and his siblings would have occupied before the boys were sent off to school. She suppressed a smile, suspecting that their boisterous energy had been as hard for their tutor to contain as Julia’s tantrums were for Miss Dawson.MoreLess
“Then I suggest you don’t behave like one.”
“But this is a nursery. And nurseries are for babies. I want to go home!”
“Mind your manners, Lady Julia,” Miss Dawson said.
Leah shared a glance with Beth, not unsympathetic to the child’s dilemma. It must seem very strange to her, to be removed from everything she was used to, and she was expressing her vulner...ability in the only way she knew how.
“You can take your lesson with Miss Dawson in here, free from distraction.” Leah hadn’t been up here very often. The schoolroom adjoined the nursery. It contained several scarred and scuffed desks that Hal and his siblings would have occupied before the boys were sent off to school. She suppressed a smile, suspecting that their boisterous energy had been as hard for their tutor to contain as Julia’s tantrums were for Miss Dawson.MoreLess
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