How the Marquess Was Won
“Everyone looked familiar now and everyone was a stranger, but none of it mattered when they were united in gaiety, or so went her tipsy thinking. She sipped at her third—fourth?—cup of the evening. As she took a step backward, she bumped into someone, nearly sloshing ratafia onto an oblivious gentleman standing before her.She turned carefully around. “Good heavens, I’m so sor—”It was Olivia Eversea.Phoebe froze, staring.“Miss Vale, isn’t it?” Olivia looked genuinely pleased. “How lovely it is t...o see another face from Pennyroyal Green.”“Oh, I agree!” Phoebe enthused. She’d learned how to gush this evening and it was becoming perhaps a little too second nature, but there was safety in it at the moment. “I do hope you’re having a lovely time, Miss Eversea.”Phoebe never did know how to talk to Olivia Eversea. She was so lovely and pale and unnerving, Olivia was, though never anything other than pleasant, her manners exquisite. All the Everseas possessed exquisite manners, even, rumor had it, when they were doing things like dangling from the balconies of married countesses or being sent to the gallows.MoreLess
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