The Pretenders
“The butler, Jerrnyn, informed us that Mama was giving him tea in the front drawing room.“Courage, Deb,” Reeve muttered in my ear, as we turned toward the room in question to make our appearance before Reeve’s formidable trustee.I had never seen Lord Bradford before, but I had certainly heard about him. He was Reeve’s father’s first cousin, a widower with a daughter and two sons, the eldest of whom was Reeve’s age. He owned a decent, unencumbered estate in Sussex, where he happily spent most of ...his time in country pursuits. His position in the peerage was not high, but his barony was of an old date. In short, I had always judged him to be exactly the sort of stolid, unremarkable, unimaginative man who would have no comprehension of the kind of devils that drove someone like Reeve.I smoothed the already straight collar of my sky-blue driving dress. Three-quarters of the clothes Madame Dufand had made for me were blue. She had been quite insistent on matching the color of my eyes.Reeve put his hand under my elbow, gave an encouraging squeeze, and together we went into the front drawing room of Lambeth House.Mama was sitting on a green-silk-covered sofa dispensing tea to a powerful-looking, broad-shouldered man with a strong, square, blunt-featured face.MoreLess
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