Love By the Morning Star
“That was the only explanation: the family was eccentric. The trait ran in aristocratic blood, apparently—she’d learned that from Wodehouse. And there was the uncle who rode to the hounds in the nude (or occasionally, on a good day, in one of those pink coats that was really scarlet, and nothing else). So it stood to reason that the family should have some peculiar traditions. She unfolded that little inward crumpling that had begun when she was turned away from the front door and marched gamely... to the rear.
Behind her, Hardy tut-tutted. “Just my luck—the prettiest ones always get axed,” he muttered as he pushed his barrow.
“This house is as big as a city block!” Hannah said as she dragged each weary leg a step further around Starkers’s walls.
“It almost is a city,” Hardy said, wondering if he could steal a kiss before Cook heard about this girl’s effrontery and sent her off without a reference. “Well more than fifty on the staff, if you include the foresters and gamekeepers.MoreLess
Behind her, Hardy tut-tutted. “Just my luck—the prettiest ones always get axed,” he muttered as he pushed his barrow.
“This house is as big as a city block!” Hannah said as she dragged each weary leg a step further around Starkers’s walls.
“It almost is a city,” Hardy said, wondering if he could steal a kiss before Cook heard about this girl’s effrontery and sent her off without a reference. “Well more than fifty on the staff, if you include the foresters and gamekeepers.MoreLess
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