Miss Delacourt Has Her Day by Heidi Ashworth

Author:Heidi Ashworth [Ashworth, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

tinny had had quite enough. It was one thing to be gazed at with expressions of admiration. It was quite another to have people stare at you through narrowed eyelids, naked curiosity stamped on their faces.

“Come, Grandaunt Regina, I believe we should find Lord Crenshaw and go home”

“Now, Ginerva, that will never do,” Grandaunt huffed. “When you are a married woman, you will find that your demands will most likely fall on deaf ears. A man does not like to be dictated to”

Ginny felt as if she had been slapped. “Perhaps that was the way of it when you were a bride,” Ginny retorted, “but Anthony is not cut from the same bolt of cloth as his grandfather.”

Grandaunt sniffed. It was a far cry from the scolding Ginny expected in return for her disrespectful attitude. “I’ll admit, things were different when I was young. Anthony is different, too, thanks be to that! I would never have thrown the two of you together, higgledy-piggledy, if I thought he might be disinclined to fall in with your wishes.”

“Why, thank you, Grandaunt. You almost make me sound a perfect hoyden” Ginny, knowing she had let her tongue get away from her, dared not risk a glance at Grandaunt’s face for fear she would look as hurt as Ginny felt. Taking a deep sigh, she softened her tone. “There is no need to assassinate my character. It’s not as if he does what I wish at all times. If he did, the two of us would be dancing at this very moment,” she explained, swallowing her disappointment as the strains of the waltz were struck. “Odious stares or not”

“You are quite right, Ginerva, just as you are quite right to trust him. There are things he might not make you privy to,” Grandaunt said with a suspiciously offhand air even as she lifted her fan to shield her lips from passersby. “But there is nothing he would not do for you” She paused, then added, “There is naught that I have said these last three years during which I have clothed, sheltered, and guided you more worthy of your notice.”

Ginny, struck by the giddy effect her grandaunt’s words had on her state of mind, resisted the urge to ply her fan in front of her face in the coy manner exhibited by the more sophisticated girls in attendance. Yet there was something to be said for having the means to hide your blushes. Grandaunt’s implication that Anthony was a man of secrets so weighty as to prevent him from unburdening them to Ginny was as enticing as it was troubling. The thought that he would do anything for her despite his other obligations, whatever they might be, was cause for blushes, indeed.

“Pray tell, what is it he is keeping from me?” she asked as soon as her wildly beating heart allowed her to speak. She found that dwelling on the “things he might not make her privy to” slowed the pounding most effectively. Indeed, the more she thought of his secrets, the more her heart froze in fear.

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