Guarded Heart
“Pausing on the gallery outside the salon, she removed her bonnet and gave her rain cloak into Solon’s keeping so it would not drip on the carpets. She smoothed her hair and shook out the skirts of her walking costume of forest green broadcloth, then moved to join her hostess whom she had caught sight of through the French doors.Maurelle looked up from the letter she was penning at her secrétaire to give Ariadne a quick smile. “There you are at last. I expected you back an hour ago, chère. Are you quite drowned?”“Very near it,” she answered on a low laugh. “I’d almost forgotten how it rains here, great plopping drops so different from the civilized sprinklings of Paris.”“Pour a cup of chocolate to warm yourself. Solon brought it just this moment so it’s quite hot.”“So he told me,” Ariadne stepped to the tray where a chocolate pot painted with a spray of carnations was set out with matching cups and a crystal cake stand piled with meringues. Filling her cup, she strolled with it to the ...fire that burned in the coal grate beneath the mantel of white marble, holding a hand out to the flames.MoreLess
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