Page 21 (1/2)
"She can smell bacon on my hands I helped clear the breakfast dishes"
"Still, you’d better take her out before she piddles on the carpet"
"Her Grace doesn’t like ani reluctantly toward the door "The dowager, I mean Apparently the shape of paws makes her al along on its paws, she goes all queer-like"
"Very odd," Olivia agreed
"And did you hear about the duke’s first wife?" Norah said, lingering by the door
"I knew of her existence, of course, but you’ll have to tellI want is to have to explain to the housekeeper why my bedchamber has an unfortunate smell"
"She was no better than a trollop," Norah stated
"No!" It didn’t suit Olivia’s ie of the duke to think of hilad eye, if you see what I e, hither and yon, and taking no roo of the duke’s closed face No wonder he had such a bleak look about him
"Dreadful is the word," Norah said with emphasis "And--"
But at that moment Lucy lost patience and piddled on the floor
And that was the end of that particular conversation
Nine
Introducing Lord Justin Fiebvre
As Quin allowed his valet to dress hi, he was happily aware that whatever ht had been washed away by a few hours of good sleep
Actually, iven that it was very nearly tiain, a man who valued reason and the intellect above all else Obviously, he’d have to keep his distance fro about her that brought out his least reasonable side He would go so far as to describe hirip of a so the night, and it was the kind of dream he hadn’t had in years Not since the early days of his e
In his dream, he had entered a roo a book He had walked over to her, his entire body one fiery throb of anticipation, and without saying a word, he had bent over her, running his fingers down the side of her face, her neck
As his caress swept down, he realized that she earing nothing ht wrapper And then she turned her face up to hi, and reached her arown fell open and--
It was e to have drea about Miss Lytton’s s him that drove his pulse to a faster rhythm
But if a ent than any dom Even animals quickly learned to avoid a forest fire