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‘Darling, you look perfectly char today’

‘What about all the other days?’ Susie asked wryly

Louise Sadler gave her a fond pat on the arm ‘You could add to your wardrobe of jeans with some more feminine clothesyou look an absolute dream in dresses’

‘A bad dream’

Up ahead, the mansion that was Kate and Richard Princeton’s house rose splendidly into view

‘The house looks nice I like the lanterns lining the sides of the drive’

‘It’s all a bit much, if you ask me, but you knowto impress everyone Still, I suppose Clarissa is the first in the Thornton line to get married Hopefully you’ll be next’

‘Or Alex’ She poked her sister in the ribs and Alex instantly chipped in that there was no ti a de career that ate up most of her leisure time

Alex was just the sort of woio was drawn to She, Susie, was the exception that proved the rule Wasn’t that why she had neverfamily? Because she didn’t want any co in a little bubble where she was appreciated in her own right? If he never met her family then he would never take a step back and wonder what the heck he was doing with her

It was ainto her own silly insecurities, and she fought against it, knowing that it wasn’t fair

In the bigger sches, silly insecurities were the least of her problems

‘I e,’ she declared, to the astonishment of both her mother and her sister, and also her father, who craned back and looked at her with raised bushy eyebrows

‘Since when?’ he demanded