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“She’s with a party of English gentry that are touring the area Mr Giles is acting as guide for them,” Lorna explained It seelance to Bull “You said she gave you a e for me? She remembered me?”

“Yes, she re the last question first “She’d like to call on you, and asked if it would be inconvenient if she came tomorrow?”

“Tohtened on the sleeve of Benteen’s arm “Tell her it’s not inconvenient at all She’s more than welcome”

“Around two o’clock,” Bull suggested

“Yes, that will be fine,” Lorna assured hi it hard to believe that the woman wanted to call on her

It would be her first opportunity to socially entertain someone other than Mary and Ely She felt the exciteled to quell it Just because she hadn’t had any real social contact for several years, she wasn’t going to becoer the way the woman in Kansas had been

“I’ll tell her that you’ll expect her tomorrow, then” He nodded and turned to leave

“Won’t you come in for coffee?” Lorna invited, despite Benteen’s unwelco attitude

But it was Benteen who drew Bull’s glance before he shook his head to refuse “No Thank you, Mrs Calder” He walked to his horse and stepped into the stirrup, hefting his broad torso into the saddle

As he trotted the horse away froed on her skirts “How coe?”

“Probably because it was faster to ride his horse,” Lorna reasoned, but she was conscious of the look Benteen sliced her

“When did the boys meet him?” The question was fired low and quick

“Yesterday,” she admitted evenly, “ent to Mr Fitzsi a carriage repaired that belongs to the English party”

“You didn’t ht”

“It must have slipped my mind” There was a sweetness to her voice that said she was paying his he hadn’t bothered to tell her Actually she had failed to tell him because she had been bothered by the last comment Bull had made