Lie By Moonlight by Amanda Quick

Author:Amanda Quick
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-01-11T00:05:19+00:00

She brightened. “You are thinking about the H. Cuthbert in Pratt’s appointment schedule, aren’t you? The one to whom she sent a bill for four pairs of gloves and four bonnets.”

Ambrose contemplated the picture again. “I believe I will pay a visit to Dorchester Street this afternoon.”

“Excellent notion. I will go with you.”

“Concordia—”

“Whoever this Cuthbert is, it appears he was involved in stealing my four girls. I am going with you, Ambrose.”

22

Thank you for seeing us without an appointment, Mr. Cuthbert.” Ambrose held a chair for Concordia and then took his own seat. He adjusted the crease in his trousers, placed the point of his walking stick on the carpet between his knees and stacked his gloved hands on the hilt.

Concordia murmured something vague and coolly polite. Herbert Cuthbert did not appear to hear the thinly disguised loathing in her voice, but Ambrose was very aware of it. Fortunately the black net veil of her hat concealed her expression.

“Not at all, sir,” Cuthbert said. An eagerness bordering on desperation glistened in his pale eyes. “As it happens I had some time free this afternoon.”

Ambrose suspected that the roles he and Concordia had chosen to play today, that of an upper-class couple of obvious means, was the real reason Cuthbert had discovered some free time in his appointment book.

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