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“Or this”

“Gareth!”

“Gareth, yes, or Gareth, no?”

She smiled She couldn’t help it

“Gareth more”

Chapter 19

The following Tuesday

Everything important seems to happen on a Tuesday, doesn’t it?

“Look what I have!”

Hyacinth grinned as she stood in the doorway of Lady Danbury’s drawing roo aloft Miss Davenport and the Dark Marquis

“A new book?” Lady D asked from her position across the room She was seated in her favorite chair, but froht as well have been a throne

“Not just any book,” Hyacinth said with a sly smile as she held it forth “Look”

Lady Danbury took the book in her hands, glanced down, and positively beamed “We haven’t read this one yet,” she said She looked back up at Hyacinth “I hope it’s just as bad as the rest”

“Oh, co a seat next to her, “you shouldn’t call them bad”

“I didn’t say they weren’t entertaining,” the countess said, eagerly flipping through the pages “How many chapters do we have left with dear Miss Butterworth?”