It Takes a Hero
“ Lady Lowthorpe to Miss Cecilia Overton in Miss Darby's Daring Dilemma "Tell me where it is," thundered Major Harrington. "Can you not see that our very lives are at stake?" Rafe had gained the doorway to the orangery just ahead of Rebecca.
"Oh, dear," she gasped. "Oh, no, this cannot be." What it was about, Rafe didn't know, but he'd seen enough desperate men in his life to know that Harrington was beyond angry, beyond agitated. It hadn't escaped his notice that the man had been nervous and... cagey all night, and while he had at first thought it was just part of the major's character, now he could see that something was erupting inside the man, spilling forth at the poor witless colonel.
Rafe's simple trip to the seemingly innocent village of Bramley Hollow had cast him neck deep in trouble. Seven Dials was starting to look positively bucolic.
"Listen to me, Posthill, you've got to pull yourself together," Harrington was saying. He had the colonel by both shoulders and was shaking the older man like a terrier with a rat.MoreLess
"Oh, dear," she gasped. "Oh, no, this cannot be." What it was about, Rafe didn't know, but he'd seen enough desperate men in his life to know that Harrington was beyond angry, beyond agitated. It hadn't escaped his notice that the man had been nervous and... cagey all night, and while he had at first thought it was just part of the major's character, now he could see that something was erupting inside the man, spilling forth at the poor witless colonel.
Rafe's simple trip to the seemingly innocent village of Bramley Hollow had cast him neck deep in trouble. Seven Dials was starting to look positively bucolic.
"Listen to me, Posthill, you've got to pull yourself together," Harrington was saying. He had the colonel by both shoulders and was shaking the older man like a terrier with a rat.MoreLess
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