“Violet was chastened and quiet for a few hours, then emerged from her room and wanted to go on a walk in the garden, and all the females decided to accompany her to sketch follies and flowers and the like. Cynthia’s skill in this regard was modest, at best, and she felt impatient, thought her time more constructively spent charming men, all of whom accompanied them out to the parklands.All, that was, except for Miles. He’d made himself scarce for the entire afternoon to see to business about th...e property and to attend to correspondence. At least this was the excuse he gave.Eventually, in the laughter and flirtation of the day, Cynthia almost forgot her time here was growing shorter, her shoes and purse growing thinner, that no letter had yet arrived from Northumberland, and that Miles Redmond would allegedly be making love to Lady Middlebough this very evening.Lady Middlebough sketched very well. If with an excess of passion.But in the dark, after she’d retired from the evening, Cynthia had great difficulty forgetting all of these things.A particular impulse gathered momentum, became unbearable.She finally surrendered to it.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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