Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal
“Hazlit’s insides were not calm, his skin felt too tight, and he was on the brink of revealing family history about which he’d stayed silent for twelve years.
He’d wanted to make the point that his family had weathered scandal, too. Whatever indiscretion Maggie Windham had committed, it wasn’t going to condemn her in his eyes. Not when his sisters’ safety had been jeopardized while he’d been nowhere to be found.
“As I’ve said, their names are Alexandra and Avis. Avis is the elder and remains nea...r our family seat in Cumbria.”
“I’m told it’s lovely there.”
With her free hand, she poured him more tea, adding the sugar and stirring as if they were discussing whose hem had been torn at last night’s ball.
“Cumbria’s… indescribable, if you’ve never been there. There’s no place like it in the whole of England. The light is so… clear, the fells so rugged. The forest marches right up to the mountains, and it has a kind of beauty that makes a man glad he has eyes to see it and lungs to breathe it.MoreLess
He’d wanted to make the point that his family had weathered scandal, too. Whatever indiscretion Maggie Windham had committed, it wasn’t going to condemn her in his eyes. Not when his sisters’ safety had been jeopardized while he’d been nowhere to be found.
“As I’ve said, their names are Alexandra and Avis. Avis is the elder and remains nea...r our family seat in Cumbria.”
“I’m told it’s lovely there.”
With her free hand, she poured him more tea, adding the sugar and stirring as if they were discussing whose hem had been torn at last night’s ball.
“Cumbria’s… indescribable, if you’ve never been there. There’s no place like it in the whole of England. The light is so… clear, the fells so rugged. The forest marches right up to the mountains, and it has a kind of beauty that makes a man glad he has eyes to see it and lungs to breathe it.MoreLess
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