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“Indeed Miss Winthrop, I have co band of actors giving a showing of The Ta of the Shrew …” He hesitated and looked at her expectantly
She felt a blush enter her cheeks “That is most kind It would not, however, be seemly for me, in my present situation, to be seen at the theater with you, unchaperoned”
“Aha! I ah I care little for theh with you Hence, I have taken the liberty of purchasing fourteen tickets Miss Graves advises me that there are twelve students in your class That leaves us two tickets hich to accoet into any mischief!”
Sassy blinked, for she had not expected this and was, in fact, flattered that he had gone to such trouble on her behalf “You astound me! I … why … I know not what to say”
“What else but yes? You surely would not deprive your students of such a classical outing?” the doctor replied with a mischievous look in his eyes
“But this reat deal?” Sassy exclaimed
“Yes, it did That is why you must accept—for now I shall have to work hard, so much harder to cure the ills of patients far and wide so that I do not fall into debt,” he said with a dramatic wave of his hand
She laughed and inclined her head “Then on behalf of my students and myself, I do accept Thank you”
Dr James Bankes bowed his head “You have ly happy”
~ Fourteen ~
SASSY WAS EXCITED at the prospect of going to the theatre and looked forward to it with great anticipation
No nightly visitors appeared again to disturb her peace and worry herdays with student activities However, by the end of the week, the arrival of the Marquis of Dartmour at Netherby blew such forced calmness to smithereens
Sassy’s afternoon was at a happy conclusion, for she had tutored, she had finished sewing the ree to her redingote, and she had just sighed in realization that she was left with nothing to do
It was already a gray day and getting darker as night approached, but, she told herself, there would be no harrounds She donned her drab brown pelisse, slid on her gloves, and made her way downstairs just as the front doors opened to divulge the marquis’s arrival
She hadn’t thought it possible for her heart to beat as fast as it had suddenly begun thu welled up inside her and burned as it lodged in her throat She couldn’t think, she couldn’t feel, and now, she knehy Her mother’s ‘secret manuscript’ had revealed to her what ‘transition’ meant to the white witches of her faical poas at hand, it also meant her true mate would be disclosed Thus, was he her trueattraction for him, or was it real? She wished she knew if this hat her mother had experienced when she’d chosen her father She had to know if this was real