In a Moonlit Garden by Cathy Maxwell

Author:Cathy Maxwell [Maxwell, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780743445818
Google: 3CFD3W2u4FAC
Amazon: B006VJN29A
Barnesnoble: B006VJN29A
Goodreads: 13544887
Publisher: Sonnet
Published: 2002-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Mrs. Jeter watched the handsome Mr. Donaldson leave her establishment and almost danced with joy. He’d paid her in coin, right up front.

And if Mr. Donaldson was a tea merchant then she was a crown princess. She knew people and he was no peddler. Why, he hadn’t even asked her to purchase tea, not once! He should if he wanted to make a living. But then, with a purse that full, he needn’t worry about funds.

She wondered what game was being played but was also glad Miss Kenyon finally had a champion. She said as much to the spinster Clark sisters when they came in to choose a new set of feathers for the turbans they planned to wear to the ball.

“He is handsome, isn’t he?” the oldest Miss Clark agreed. “No one more handsome in Wye. Pity about Miss Kenyon being jilted by Mr. Burkhardt. Bad form that was.”

Mrs. Jeter knew she’d been sworn to secrecy . . . but some secrets were hard to keep.

The dress was one of them.

After all, everyone liked Miss Kenyon, so she had to share the news with the Clark sisters . . . who later told Mrs. Mayes the story . . . who couldn’t wait to mention the dress to Mrs. Banks. Mrs. Mayes reasoned the vicar’s wife had a responsibility to know everything going on in Wye.

And so the story traveled and by midafternoon, everyone knew Mr. Donaldson had purchased a dress for Miss Kenyon.

Some villagers were appalled by the impropriety. Others were titillated. And some were glad the kind Miss Kenyon had found someone new.

But the person most interested in this news was Rose Burkhardt.

She hurried out to the barn where her son was supervising a crew rebuilding hayricks. “You aren’t going to believe what I’ve just heard,” she started, and told him about the dress.

He didn’t believe her . . . at first.

However, later, when he had time to think, he began to wonder. He thought of Jocelyn in the dress shop with Donaldson, of their closeness and the argument they’d had in the comer of the shop—and his jealousy knew no bounds.

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