What a Gentleman Wants
“Pretending to be a duchess was quite a lot of work, it turned out.
The duke gathered the entire staff and introduced her as the new duchess. His smile to her was dark with irony, but she ignored him, stepping forward and trying to learn as many names as she could. After the first twenty, though, she realized she ought to learn instead what all their positions were, for she had no idea what made one girl a downstairs maid and another an upstairs maid, not to mention the ‘tween stairs maid. T...hey were all neatly dressed in blue and gray, which Rosalind had told her were the Exeter colors, and Hannah realized self-consciously that their clothing was finer than her own. When she finally reached the end, she stood by the duke’s side, not certain what to do next. He looked at his butler, and everyone left, quickly and quietly.
“Goodness,” she murmured, watching the dozens of servants return to dieir posts without the talking and whispering she would have expected in any other group of people that large.MoreLess
The duke gathered the entire staff and introduced her as the new duchess. His smile to her was dark with irony, but she ignored him, stepping forward and trying to learn as many names as she could. After the first twenty, though, she realized she ought to learn instead what all their positions were, for she had no idea what made one girl a downstairs maid and another an upstairs maid, not to mention the ‘tween stairs maid. T...hey were all neatly dressed in blue and gray, which Rosalind had told her were the Exeter colors, and Hannah realized self-consciously that their clothing was finer than her own. When she finally reached the end, she stood by the duke’s side, not certain what to do next. He looked at his butler, and everyone left, quickly and quietly.
“Goodness,” she murmured, watching the dozens of servants return to dieir posts without the talking and whispering she would have expected in any other group of people that large.MoreLess
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