Shady Lady

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Genres: Fiction
She’d had the good fortune, when she’d left the Red Lion, to come upon a chaise that had just set down its passengers, and she’d hired it on the spot. Now, as one postboy looked after the horses, the other followed in her footsteps as she approached the porter’s lodge. To her great surprise and relief, there was no porter on duty and the gate was unlocked.
She paused for a moment, marshaling her confidence, reminding herself that she was a woman of substance and used to being taken seriously. S
...he didn’t know what was waiting for her, but whatever it was, she was up to handling it.
All the same, she hoped that her fears were groundless and this was all a colossal misunderstanding.
The front door was opened by a maid in a white apron and mobcap, a girl of about fourteen summers or so, whose lips trembled and dark eyes filled with tears when she saw Jo. She seemed to know who Jo was and had been waiting for her to appear.
“You’ve got to help her,” she cried, her tears running over.
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