Letters to a Lady (1987)
“Diana said as Harrup’s carriage approached Markwell’s house. “If you’ll have the groom stop, I’ll just pop out and pick up my cape. I know exactly where I left it.”
Harrup gave a grudging smile. “This evening goes from melodrama to farce. No, Diana, you will not just pop out and fall into some other scrape. Tell me where you mislaid the cursed cape and I’ll get it.”
“It is not mislaid. I placed it very carefully aside to keep it from getting wet—wetter. It’s somewhere behind the barrel, which is at the window. And Harrup, do be careful. The servant might just possibly be peeking out the window. I wouldn’t want to involve you in anything unsavory,” she said.
He mistrusted the pixie tilt of her eyes and some quality in her voice that was just short of a gurgle. “You enjoy putting me through my paces,” he accused.
“It will do you no harm to be knocked off your high horse from time to time. A man must expect to pay for his sins.”
Harrup tried to go on acting angry, but his innate sense of... the ridiculous took over when he found the sodden cape on the ground and imagined the sequence of events that had led to it.MoreLess
Harrup gave a grudging smile. “This evening goes from melodrama to farce. No, Diana, you will not just pop out and fall into some other scrape. Tell me where you mislaid the cursed cape and I’ll get it.”
“It is not mislaid. I placed it very carefully aside to keep it from getting wet—wetter. It’s somewhere behind the barrel, which is at the window. And Harrup, do be careful. The servant might just possibly be peeking out the window. I wouldn’t want to involve you in anything unsavory,” she said.
He mistrusted the pixie tilt of her eyes and some quality in her voice that was just short of a gurgle. “You enjoy putting me through my paces,” he accused.
“It will do you no harm to be knocked off your high horse from time to time. A man must expect to pay for his sins.”
Harrup tried to go on acting angry, but his innate sense of... the ridiculous took over when he found the sodden cape on the ground and imagined the sequence of events that had led to it.MoreLess
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