First Season by Lucy Muir

Author:Lucy Muir [Muir, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Regency Romance
Publisher: Belgrave House
Published: 1992-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Lady Hardwick carried through her threat to order that Lord Courtney be told Hetty was indisposed the very next time he called, and Hetty sat in the Great Salon feeling very put upon. Sophie, looking especially smug and superior when her two favorite suitors, Lord Lockwood and Mr. Eastman, were announced, smiled complacently at her cousin. The attentions of both gentlemen had been very marked toward Sophie, and Hetty supposed it would not be long before Sophie received an offer.

Hetty looked away from her cousin and her guests, pretending to be absorbed in her fancy work. She needed time to concentrate on the problem created by Lady Hardwick’s refusing to allow her to see Lord Courtney. How would she get word to Lord Courtney that she was forbidden to see him? She had no idea how to go about sending him a message without Lady Hardwick hearing of it. Daisy was not familiar enough with London to take a message and Hetty knew no one else she could trust.

A few moments later, hope came from an unexpected source. A servant entered the salon with a note for Hetty from Lady Emily Wakeford, who, remembering that Lady Hardwick left Hetty home Wednesday nights while she and her daughter attended Almack’s, invited Hetty to join her and her mother the dowager marchioness at a play that night. Perhaps Lord Courtney would be present at the theater, Hetty hoped as she asked permission from Lady Hardwick to attend.

How she had changed from the meek, eager-to-please niece she had been when she first arrived in London, Hetty thought with a smile as she once again picked up her fancy work. But although she felt a tiny prick of conscience when she remembered her mother’s admonitions to obey her aunt, it was quickly smothered by recollections of her aunt’s injustice.

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