Midsummer Eve at Rookery End by Elizabeth Hanbury

Author:Elizabeth Hanbury
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780956119179
Publisher: E-Scape Press Ltd
Published: 2009-09-01T07:40:21.052000+00:00

The room begin to revolve around Verity and the letter blurred in and out of focus.

Nausea rose in her throat and the ringing in her ears grew louder and louder. Stunned, she drew in a deep breath and struggled against the shock threatening to overwhelm her.

Staring at the note, she tried to gather her wits. She had feared something like this. Part of her admired Amelia’s audacity and spirit – she had flown in the face of her father’s wishes to be with the man she loved – but this was quickly replaced by more sobering reflections.

A scandal would ensue when news of this leaked out. Amelia claimed now not to care about what happened afterwards, but that could change when the impropriety of a clandestine wedding had sunk in.

Verity crushed the note into a ball, her thoughts running ahead wildly. She had to stop Amelia, or at least ask her to re-consider. Verity saw now that Amelia’s flight this evening had been pre-arranged. The poor girl had been bullied until she felt she had no other option but to marry George out of hand.

But perhaps something could be salvaged from this crisis. The Viscount could be left in no doubt after tonight that his daughter was in earnest about marrying Mr Devaynes. If Verity could induce Amelia to return home, although the Viscount would be furious at first, she believed he must eventually give his consent. But as Verity fretted about how on earth she was going to catch the truants before they got too far, it occurred to her that there was someone equally to blame as Amelia’s father for this disastrous state of affairs – Sir Tristan Millforte.

If Sir Tristan had not entered into the ridiculous arrangement with the Viscount, Amelia would not have been goaded into eloping.

If Sir Tristan had taken the trouble to get to know Amelia, he would have seen that she loved another and realised that forcing a young, spirited girl into a mariage de convenance must lead to unhappiness.

The more she considered it, the more her anger towards him grew. Sir Tristan was an arrogant, insensitive brute and as culpable as Viscount Radnor.

It was the outside of enough.

Despite her lowly position, Verity determined to confront Sir Tristan about his behaviour and demand his help in overtaking the runaways – he was partly to blame after all.

Wrath sparkling in her eyes, Verity rose to her feet, eager to find Sir Tristan.

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