Kathryn Caskie by Love Is in the Heir

Author:Love Is in the Heir
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

By the end of that day, having lost all confidence in everlasting love . . . in love at all, at least for herself, Hannah did her best to set aside the pain of loss that still throbbed in her breast and rededicated her life to finding suitable mates for other unfortunates.

By the end of the week, her belief in the good she was doing for others grew ever firm, and Hannah ventured so far as to pay for an advertisement in the Bath Herald.

She’d once kidded with the Featherton sisters that she ought to commission a carved shingle to promote her matchmaking service, but only a couple of days past, she’d done just that. And when the sign arrived a day later, she proudly carried it outside and hung it above the kitchen door just below the entry to the Feathertons’ grand residence.

Surveying the shingle from the flagway, just beyond the iron-railed stairway that led down to the outer kitchen door, Hannah allowed herself a pleased smile.

The sign was bright and vividly painted. An emblem of two linked rings of gold gleamed in the center of the shingle. Even Annie, who was always quite critical, admitted that the effect was quite arresting. And it was.

Anyone who visited, or even strolled past Number One Royal Crescent would not be able to avoid noticing it, especially when the sun angled just as it did now, making the rings glitter almost magically.

Still, Hannah did not delude herself into thinking Bath society would support such a venture. Indeed, the fashionable collective would surely gasp at her audacity in establishing a matchmaking business.

But flaunting it in the newspaper and in the street, especially while the Featherton sisters, pillars of the community, were charged with her guidance—well, that was beyond the pale.

Still, Hannah wasn’t about to allow the attitudes of others to stop her. No, she had learned that lesson with the earl. She would be true to herself—and in this instance, that meant assisting the lovelorn who had not the skill or nature to secure mates on their own.

It would not be easy, standing up for her service, and especially not at home. The two elderly Featherton sisters would see that her sign was removed the very instant they learned of it, for even the quirky, mischievous old ladies had their standards.

Still, the day or two the shingle would hang in plain sight of anyone who passed would be all that was necessary to start tongues flapping with the news of her venture.

Even if the sign was removed immediately, Hannah had convinced herself that it really wouldn’t affect her business so greatly.

Already her matchmaking services were in high demand—and here it was just nine short days after Mr. St. Albans told her that he loved her, then suddenly could not remember ever having done so.

The wretched rogue.

Surprisingly enough, even the gossipers’ retelling of her painful tale of loss, no matter how untruthful or fanciful the story they chose to spread, secured her new business.

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