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Distraught and grieving over their beloved grandfather’s death, they had not put up too much of a fuss at the time

The tie, but Mandy’s plans to be brought out by her maternal aunt had to be canceled as she did not wish to be brought out during the first year after her grandfather’s death

Thus, Mandy had remained at the Halls At first she didn’t mind She loved the Dales countryside and there had been much at the estate to occupy her time

As the ressed, however, Mandy’s youth pinched and e ca an interest in Celia, she becaotten on her nerves

Celia gave hi Easter and even as late as teeks ago after Ned had been home for some weeks, Mandy could not recall Celia in the least interested in him

Mandy had thought it remarkable actually, as most of her acquaintances and friends considered him a fair Adonis In addition to that, he was titled, and would soon be extremely wealthy

The secretive Celia had few prospects with her small dowry and her lonely location in the Dales As Celia had been unable to afford a true London Season, she had soe

Such things happened when a woman had no dowry or entre into society

Mandy had noticed the sudden shift in Celia’s attentions toward her twin only recently It was as though her cousin suddenly woke up to the fact that she could do much worse for herself than Lord Edward of Sherborne

This could get complicated

Ned had fallen into deep thought He and Mandy were approaching their twenty-first birthday She needed a Season, but their ive her one this year In addition to that, he would soon have to take over his vast inheritance Was he up to challenge? He hoped so His grandfather had taught hi he needed to know

Celia had become a sudden problem He had as Mandy said followed her about like a puppy early on However, he had seen her flirting with so entlemen that he soon realized, she was not who he had fashioned her to be

However, she was older, seductive and had a way of looking at him lately that et married He liked women, all sorts of wo and had not truly fallen in love, yet

He was, like his sister, a bit of a root married

Mandy was right He had to avoid the lovely Celia