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“If anyone else said that to ainst the floor even though she was seated in a perfectly good chair, “I’d take it as an insult”

“But not fro to sound disappointed

Lady Danbury chuckled “Do you knohy I like you so well, Hyacinth Bridgerton?”

Hyacinth leaned forward “I’”

Lady D’s face spread into a creased sirl, are exactly like me”

“Do you know, Lady Danbury,” Hyacinth said, “if you said that to anyone else, she’d probably take it as an insult”

Lady D’s thin body quivered with mirth “But not you?”

Hyacinth shook her head “Not me”

“Good” Lady Danbury gave her an uncharacteristically grandlanced up at the clock on the mantel “We’ve time for another chapter, I think”

“We agreed, one chapter each Tuesday,” Hyacinth said,

Lady D’s ru Hyacinth in a slyelse”

Oh, dear

“Tellforward, “how are your prospects these days?”

“You sound like my mother,” Hyacinth said sweetly

“A cohest order,” Lady D tossed back “I like your mother, and I hardly like anyone”