Intrigue (Daughters of Mannerling 2)
“WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jessica paced nervously up and down the garden as the day of the ball approached, increasingly nervous, increasingly ill at ease, her hair brushed loosely down about her shoulders. She was not expecting Harry to call. His last call had been on the Wednesday of the week before. He had said he would be busy right up until the ball. He had been warm and affectionate, and she had felt happy and secure when he left. But contrary to what she had been told, absence did not seem to ...be making the heart grow fonder. What Robert had told her of Harry’s character began to worry her for the first time, and besides, she had begun to dream of Robert, sensuous, languorous dreams that no lady should have. She began to feel haunted by Robert Sommerville. She was beginning to have a wish, which she kept trying to drive out of her head, that Harry would not propose to her. Had not Isabella at that fatal ball at Mannerling been so sure that Mr Judd would propose to her? And had not he humiliated her by proposing to Mary Stoppard?MoreLess
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