An Unconventional Miss by Dorothy Elbury

Author:Dorothy Elbury
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Upon their arrival back at Dover Street, they were greeted with the news that they had only just missed a most crestfallen Harry Stevenage. The young lieutenant, so Imogen informed them, had called round to bid the family a sad farewell, owing to the fact that both he and his unit were about to be dispatched to Newcastle, in the far north of the country, making it doubtful that he would return to London before the close of the Season.

‘He did say that he will, almost certainly, be paying his usual visit to his godfather in the autumn and commissioned me to tell you,’ added Imogen, with a smiling nod in Jessica’s direction, ‘that he would be most obliged if you could find it in your heart to drop him the occasional line.’

‘Yes, of course,’ was Jessica’s somewhat disconsolate reply, it very quickly having occurred to her that, with both of her ‘respectable’ escorts off on their travels, the relative freedom that she had enjoyed for the past few weeks looked to have reached its conclusion. In the light of last year’s unsavoury incident, she was well aware that Matt was hardly likely to be in favour of his young sister wandering around the capital on her own and, as for allowing her to go off with any gentlemen escorts, other than those whom he had himself personally and thoroughly vetted, she knew that this was equally out of the question!

She groaned inwardly, visualising the coming days filled with circumspect shopping trips with either Clara, her maid, at her side or, worse still, one of the footmen at her heels!

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