Oriana meanwhile, was warming up to her role. ‘So fortunate that Grandiston has such a devious mind.’īoth ladies giggled and set themselves to find some cards to while away a quarter hour before which they could not re-enter the ballroom. ‘If Mrs Thorne is not trembling at the thought of losing the biggest fish she has ever had on a hook, I’ve been mistaken in her.’ I couldn’t squeeze out another fake tear.’ She grinned. ‘Clarissa you have quite bruised me.’ Juliana said. Take care of her and stop her crying.’ She swept out once more. ‘Nothing has occurred,’ replied Juliana even more repressively, ‘To be sure we all hoped, when his lordship realised … but it is best we do not talk of such things just now.’ ‘You are mistaken, Mrs Thorne, no offer to your sister has yet been received from his Lordship.’ Juliana winced, and then turned to Cornelia, her eyes widened in a repressive message. Am I to believe, Clarissa, that you have rejected Lord Grandiston?’Ĭlarissa howled and threw herself onto Juliana’s shoulder. She swept in, rage repressed, and said to Clarissa. He hastened to his wife’s side, pouring out the tale in a whisper, interrupted by social smiles to the other guests.Ĭornelia found Juliana soothing her sister-in-law in a small ante-chamber. Mr Thorne’s thoughts of untold social advancement lay shattered on the floor. He nodded his head to Thorne and drew Charles away to the ballroom saying, with his old suavity, ‘I hear congratulations are in order, dear boy.
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