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However, he sently said, “Sally, you know this has to stop” He saw that she was shocked by the way her mouth dropped He used thatjust as he closed it at his back, “As I said, get dressed, my dear, and I shall await you downstairs and see you safely into the hack”

He heard her sto behind the door he had just closed and grinned to hile not one ive soht to a trip to Yorkshire to visit with his wards?

Chapter One

“COME ON NED, let’s wind it!” shouted a bright-eyed lady astride a fine looking gelding “I do so need this run, don’t you?” She knew that she looked like a hoyden as she brushed a wild strand of yellow hair away from her face and saw from the look on her brother’s face, that he was about to lecture her both about the manner in which she was dressed and the fact that she refused to ride anyway but astride

She pressed her horse lightly with the heal of her boot and the well-ive his lady what she wanted

“Ho there, Mandy!” her brother called with a frown as he caught up to her and indicated for her to slon

She eased her horse into a trot and then a walk as she allowed her brother to fall in step with her and sighed She could see from his drawn brows that he was in what she called Friday-faced “What ever is the matter?”

“I’ thisin his saddle to level a ‘look’ at her as he reined in his bay gelding

She glanced sideways at his angular profile, so htly but slowed her horse to accommodate him

“Tiive you a season, sis You have been kept kicking your heels here in the Dales and it isn’t right Want you to know that I

uardian, the Duke and demand that he attend to the ements”

“I do not think he will bother with us, one bit Ned” She shook her head, “If he hasn’t yet, why should he when there is little e to conduct our own affairs,” she answered reasonably She frowned as she gave the ht and added, “You knoe lect He may be just too old to journey here”

“Mandy, isn’t that just like you? Always defending everyone I daresay you would defend the devil hirimaced at her, “No, he can’t be old, as I tell you that I didn’t get that i of a rogue, in fact Goes about stealing and breaking hearts”

“Really?” Mandy was surprised but not shocked Her friends had always said that stealing hearts was the pasti of the haute ton Corinthians She considered the ht because he was Grandpapa’s friend he had to be an older ht in this Maybe they misunderstood what they had been told…maybe they didn’t hear the name correctly?”

He frowned, but waved this off, “Doesn’tto apply to him You must have a season”