![]() ![]() “Humph,” Lady Bonnington said, “Least said of that reprobate, the better. Bea, would you like to see it? The workmanship is quite elegant.” “There’s Romeo below the balcony, looking up at Juliet. You see –” one of Esme’s curls brushed his cheek. “Romeo and Juliet, are they?” he asked Esme, peering at the little figures painted with exquisite detail on the folds of her fan. ![]() He was, after all, an old hat at campaigning. Just enough to make him draw closer to Esme and bend his head over her fan. As Lady Beatrix sat down, Esme - as she’d asked him to call her - was showing him the intricate figures on the back of her fan. Yet it wasn’t until Lady Beatrix Lennox was ushered into a seat across from him that Stephen began enjoying himself. There was a sleepy smile in her eyes that would make any man under the age of seventy think of bed - ney, dream of bed. ![]() Stephen had no sooner seated himself than Lady Rawlings leaned towards him with a very marked kind of attention. ![]() Here they are at lunch Esme’s new resolve is somewhat surprising to everyone at the table, including Lady Beatrix Lennox (Bea), who has some interest in Fairfax-Lacy herself. Stephen Fairfax-Lacy (last seen in Duchess ) would make a far better husband than her gardener… even if that gardener is really Marquess Bonnington. ![]()
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