The Handbook to Handling His Lordship by Suzanne Enoch

Author:Suzanne Enoch
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780312534547
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Emily hadn’t slept for a moment last night. Instead she’d sat looking out her small window while Lily snored delicately in the second bed behind her, and she’d considered her very limited options.

Westfall—Nate, because that fit him better in her thoughts, whatever she’d told him that she meant to call him—had asked her not to flee. That wasn’t the reason that when dawn came she still sat in her chair within the walls of The Tantalus Club, of course. She remained because she still felt safe there, and because a flight without a plan had never served her well.

At the least she meant to ask Lord Haybury to assist her in withdrawing a large sum from her account at the Bank of England, and to have his man write up a paper enabling her to do so on her own from elsewhere in the country. The marquis had seemed to understand her reluctance to leave the grounds even to open an account and so he’d done it for her, but he wouldn’t be fleeing with her. If she left.

The only thing she’d decided, actually, was that she needed to speak to Diane and Jenny. She’d made them a promise, and it was past time she kept it.

“Have you been sitting there all night?” Lily asked sleepily, when Jenny knocked at their door to announce time for the morning shift to rise.

“No,” Emily lied. “I only woke a short while ago.”

The pretty daughter of a high-ranking member of the Church and a baron’s daughter, Lily Banks had come to the club only a few months ago. With her quiet smiles and warm wit Emily had liked her immediately, and had decided that sharing a room with the petite, black-haired girl would be much preferable to taking on Lucille Hampton and her ceaseless prattling.

When Sophia White, the unacknowledged daughter of the Duke of Hennessy and his wife’s maid, had come to the Tantalus even before it had opened its doors, London had been scandalized. Now that sweet Sophia had married the Duke of Greaves, though, every young lady born on the wrong side of the blanket to a lord or a diplomat or a member of the clergy or a high-ranking officer had been appearing at the back door of the club.

Not all of them were allowed entry, either. As sympathetic as Diane was to their varying plights, the Tantalus came first. If they weren’t able to read and write, if they didn’t have pleasant conversation or a brain between their ears, if they weren’t young and pretty, if they couldn’t at least cook or mend clothes, they couldn’t become Tantalus girls.

She herself had been at least as fortunate as Lily, because she’d come to the Tantalus when it had still been an idea. Diane, Lady Cameron, had been hiring desperate young women, and had asked the scandalous and devilishly handsome Lord Haybury to teach them what he knew of wagering. Adam House had been full of men doing construction, tearing

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