Mood Indigo
“Margaret Peyton? Susan had casually mentioned that the woman was married to a doddering but wealthy man. At church, the woman looked small and soft, like Susan—except for the eyes. Jane had caught the laughing challenge Margaret’s dark-brown eyes had issued to Ethan. But Margaret could not know that his heart belonged to Susan. How droll that the populace believed Ethan to be enamoured of his maidservant!
Within days Jane received the first of a trickling stream of anxious, wary callers who... had heard in that colony of shifting and uncertain political ties that Ethan Gordon’s maidservant was loyal to the king. Always they inquired if the master was away before the tightness eased from their faces.
There was Lucy Barnes, whose husband was a cobbler. Jane sat in the parlor with the sloping-chinned woman and listened to the hesitant words accelerate until the woman’s speech became like a runaway carriage.
“We—me husband and me—don’t want to take sides .MoreLess
Within days Jane received the first of a trickling stream of anxious, wary callers who... had heard in that colony of shifting and uncertain political ties that Ethan Gordon’s maidservant was loyal to the king. Always they inquired if the master was away before the tightness eased from their faces.
There was Lucy Barnes, whose husband was a cobbler. Jane sat in the parlor with the sloping-chinned woman and listened to the hesitant words accelerate until the woman’s speech became like a runaway carriage.
“We—me husband and me—don’t want to take sides .MoreLess
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