The Flaming Corsage
“This was his first visit to this house since his proposal to Katrina. He’d seen her often, exchanged letters with her daily, but was persona non grata until her insistence wore down her parents. She had written Edward this morning that her determination had triumphed, that they would talk to him about the future; and so now, at afternoon, when he rang the pullbell of the Taylors’ Gothic Revival town house, Fletcher, the family butler these ten years, opened the door to him. As Edward entered th...e foyer, Fletcher took his hat, put it on the hall hat rack.
“Miss Katrina will meet you in the library, Mr. Daugherty.”
“Thank you, Fletcher. How goes the horseshoe season?”
Fletcher, a precise and florid man of some wit, and with a day laborer’s constitution, was horseshoe champion of Elk Street servants. A summer-long competition ran in the court alongside the Taylor stables, and Edward, being of neither master nor servant class, occasionally joined the games.MoreLess
“Miss Katrina will meet you in the library, Mr. Daugherty.”
“Thank you, Fletcher. How goes the horseshoe season?”
Fletcher, a precise and florid man of some wit, and with a day laborer’s constitution, was horseshoe champion of Elk Street servants. A summer-long competition ran in the court alongside the Taylor stables, and Edward, being of neither master nor servant class, occasionally joined the games.MoreLess
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