Slightly Wicked
“Hardinge at dinner, his grandmother having been more discreet in her table arrangements than Lady Effingham was at Harewood. It was a relief to him, even though the one lady talked about nothing but the travails of having six daughters to bring out when one would like nothing better than to remain on one’s own country estate all year long, and the other tittered and commiserated with him over the fact that he had to keep two matrons company when he would doubtless far prefer to be seated by som...eone younger and prettier.
“Might I even say,” she suggested, arching him a sidelong glance, “a particular someone?”
Miss Effingham, farther down the table, on the same side as Rannulf, talked animatedly with Roy-Hill and Law, her table companions. A few times Lady Effingham leaned forward and wanted to know the cause of a particular burst of laughter.
“Lord Rannulf and I and everyone else feel very isolated from the merriment, dearest,” she said on one of those occasions.
Judith Law sat on the other side of the table and conversed quietly with her uncle on one side and Richard Warren on the other.MoreLess
“Might I even say,” she suggested, arching him a sidelong glance, “a particular someone?”
Miss Effingham, farther down the table, on the same side as Rannulf, talked animatedly with Roy-Hill and Law, her table companions. A few times Lady Effingham leaned forward and wanted to know the cause of a particular burst of laughter.
“Lord Rannulf and I and everyone else feel very isolated from the merriment, dearest,” she said on one of those occasions.
Judith Law sat on the other side of the table and conversed quietly with her uncle on one side and Richard Warren on the other.MoreLess
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