The Earl's Invention by Diana Campbell

Author:Diana Campbell [Campbell, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780451145192
Amazon: 0451145194
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2017-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

Bonnie strode east on Grosvenor Street, marveling that it was virtually deserted. If she had learned nothing else about London during five years of residence, she had learned that its weather was notoriously foul, and she could not conceive why David’s neighbors were failing to avail themselves of this rare bright day. Not until she reached the intersection with Bond Street, at which point a gust of chill wind whipped the skirt of her walking dress well above her ankles. The sun was radiating a great deal of light but prodigious little warmth, she realized with a shiver, and her lutestring spencer provided scant protection against the cold. She pulled it around her nonetheless and—when the wind once more assailed her— instinctively reached for the brim of her hat.

But she was not wearing a hat, she belatedly recalled, as her fingers found empty air above her forehead. She had left the house without a bonnet, without gloves, and she shivered again when she registered the shocking impropriety of her attire. Or lack of attire, as the case might be. She whirled about, intending to retrace her steps as quickly as she could, but a lone man was now walking toward her on Grosvenor Street. A man who looked familiar, and Bonnie spun back round and ground her fingernails into her bare palms.

Though she had seen the man behind her sufficiently well to ascertain that he was not one of her “suitors,’ she assumed she had encountered him at Lady Lambeth’s assembly. And inasmuch as she had allegedly been the belle of the

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