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"Dunford Sousted voice "They didn't see fit to inforh I suppose it doesn't e He'll probably insist that we use the title Newcomers to the aristocracy usually do"

"You talk as if you're ayour nose up at the gentlehed and took another bite of her apple "He'll probably calltoo old for Henry now"

"You call e But you're not And it's high time you lost your hoydenish ways and found yourself a husband"

"And do what? Move off to England? I don't want to leave Cornwall"

Mrs Simpson smiled and forebore to point out that Cornas indeed a part of England Henry was so devoted to the region that she could not think of it as belonging to any greater whole "There are gentlemen here in Cornwall, you know," she said instead "Quite a few in the nearby villages You could marry one of them"

Henry scoffed "There is no one here worth his salt and you know it, Si now that Stannage Park has gone off to this stranger, and they all think I'm a freak"

"Of course they don't!" Mrs Simpson replied quickly "Everyone looks up to you"

"I know that," Henry replied, rolling her silver-gray eyes "They look up to rateful But men don't want to marry other men, you know"

"Perhaps if you'd wear a dress"

Henry looked down at her orn breeches "I do wear a dress When appropriate"

"I can't iine when that is," Mrs Simpson snorted, "since I've never seen you in one Not even at church"

"How fortunate for entleer woman

"How fortunate for you that the vicar is overfond of the French brandy you send over once a month"

Henry pretended not to hear "I wore a dress to Carlyle's funeral, if you recall And to the county ball last year And whenever we receive guests I have at least five in my closet, thank you very much Oh, and I also wear them to town"

"You do not"

"Well, perhaps not to our little village, but I do whenever I go to any other town But anyone would agree that they arethe estate" Not to ht wryly, that they all looked dreadful on her

"Well, you'd better get one on when Mr Dunford arrives"