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“The new day girl I was in the back helping with Cook, and the flighty thing forgot to tell me that it had arrived”

“Very well, but do speak to her about this lapse”

“Indeed, m’lady I already have”

She sh to her brother’s missive and read:

Dearest Daffy, best of all females,

Ha, she thought, and continued to read

I am delayed Perhaps you should return to London, for I have a notion that if I keep you kicking your heels at Easton with a countrified green girl, you and your Freddy will have my head!

Forgive me Tell the child I shall try and fetch her before the end of the rand London season

Yours,

Glen

“Well!” said his enraged sister out loud “This is too much Best of all females, am I? This is intolerable How dare he put the poor Easton child off like that, for he doesn’t know she has run off, does he?”

She sighed and answered herself under her breath, “What to do?”

Well, she couldn’t very well hobble back to London to advise him that his ward had run aith a local squire’s son It also made no sense to stay on here either

What she needed to do was find her brother and drag hie of this awful situation