Miss Richardson Comes Of Age (Zebra Regency Romance) by Counts Wilma

Author:Counts, Wilma [Counts, Wilma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2001-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Annabelle had noticed the absence of Miss Rhys on their outing to Lincoln. Miss Rhys’s friend, a Mrs. Sawyer, had explained that “poor Helen had a dreadful headache.” However, on the ladies’ return to Rolsbury Manor, there was Miss Rhys looking very chipper on the arm of their host. Later, Helen Rhys had let fall the information that she and Rolsbury had spent the afternoon reading poetry.

“Oh, how very romantic,” gushed Mrs. Sawyer.

“Wordsworth, no doubt,” Annabelle muttered sourly to herself. But she smiled blandly and answered coherently when someone directed a specific question to her.

Luke approached and Annabelle gave him a broad smile of welcome and bade him sit with her in the windowseat.

“Thought you looked a bit out of sorts,” he said.

“What? Me? Never,” she said. “Besides, has no one bothered to inform you that that is not exactly a conversational ploy to use with a lady?”

“I thought that sort of nonsense applied only to ladies on whom one had designs.”

“Are you telling me you no longer have designs on me?” she teased.

“I think you cured me of that,” Luke said. “I like you better as a friend anyway.”

She impulsively squeezed his arm. “Oh, Luke, I am so glad. I have much more need of a friend than a suitor.”

He looked into her eyes with the sincere devotion of friendship. He patted her hand on his arm and they went on to talk animatedly of other matters.

She looked up to catch Rolsbury looking at them. She could not read his expression, but she thought it might be disapproving.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.