Reckless Angel by Jane Feather

Author:Jane Feather [Feather, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1989-11-07T23:00:00+00:00

“I do envy you, Harry,” Julia Morris said wistfully the next morning. The girls were perfect foils for each other. Where Henrietta was small, Julia was tall and Junoesque in stature; where one was fair and white-skinned, the other was dark and olive-skinned; but they were much of an age and the best of friends.

“Why would you?” Henrietta asked, going to close the casement as a sudden squall blew in off the sea, darkening the sky and sending a shower of fat raindrops plopping to the ground. She had never had a girl friend before, had never experienced the luxury of sharing confidences with any but Will, and men were different. The instant liking that had sprung up between herself and Julia was one of the major sources of her present contentment, and was viewed with great approval by both Daniel and Lord and Lady Morris, who, like so many, had chosen exile and poverty when they had followed their sovereign.

“I would be married,” Julia now said, plying her needle on her tambour frame with great diligence. “Ye have so much freedom, Harry. You can order your life as you wish and there’s no one to say you nay.”

Henrietta smiled slightly. “’Tis not entirely the case. But y’are right, Julie, ’tis very pleasant being married for a lot of reasons.” Memories of the previous evening glowed warm in her mind, but those she would not share, not even with Julia.

“And y’are going to Madrid,” Julia continued, looking up from her embroidery. “It is such an adventure! And I must stay here and be dutiful, and practice fine sewing.” She grimaced in disgust. “You do not have to sew.”

Harry laughed. “That is because I do not know how to.”

“Yet you found a husband,” her friend declared unarguably. “But if I try to tell that to madam, my mother, she says she will give me a strong purge to rid me of ill humor.”

“I trust you have not told her how I met Daniel?” Harry shuddered slightly at the thought of the stiffly correct Lady Morris hearing such a scandalous tale.

Julia went into a peal of laughter. “Do not be absurd, Harry. She would never believe it. She thinks Sir Daniel far too respectable.”

Harry’s toes curled within her leather pumps at the thought of just how unrespectable—and unrespectful—her husband was capable of being. The sound of the great brass knocker interrupted this delicious musing. “Whoever could that be? I am not expecting anyone, and Daniel is at court.” Then she froze, listening to very familiar tones. With a squeal of joy, she flew to the parlor door, exploding into the hall. “Will…’tis Will. Whatever do you do here?”

“Lord, Harry, give a man a chance,” Will protested as he found his arms full of Henrietta.

“’Tis raining cats and dogs, love. Let us get in.”

She had not seen Daniel behind Will, and now stepped back, laughing. “Where did you find him?”

“In the street.” Daniel shook rain off his cloak as he came into the hall.

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