Wondering Sight (The Extraordinaries Book 2) by Melissa McShane

Author:Melissa McShane [McShane, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620076552
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2017-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

In which Sophia adds eavesdropping to her list of crimes

hey crept out of the dining room and into a warm and inviting space Sophia could not believe had anything to do with hard, cruel Lord Endicott. If it were true that houses reflected the character of their owners, it ought to be angular and cold, lit by iron lanterns and filled with portraits of handsome, nastily-smiling men and women. Instead, a dozen lamps shed a golden light on the warmly polished wooden floor and the staircase that curved along one wall until it reached a landing, where it turned sharply and continued up. Daphne was already halfway to the stairs; Sophia came out of her reverie and followed her.

There were portraits on the walls of the stairwell, but they were of ordinary-looking people, some of them with a Shaper’s beauty, but most no doubt possessing talents that did not show themselves on the skin. Their gilt frames reflected the lamplight that continued up the stairs, lighting them far too well for Sophia’s comfort. Carpeting made their steps nearly silent, though the swish of her skirts sounded too loud and too distinctive to be anything but a woman creeping about where she should not be.

Daphne stopped, and Sophia nearly ran into her; she turned to Sophia with her finger pressed to her lips, and Sophia realized someone was passing down the hall they were about to enter. Daphne’s hearing must be incredibly acute, Sophia reflected, but then they were moving on and she had no time to think about anything but moving quietly.

At the first floor landing, a doorway opened on a dark room that bore the suggestion of sofas and low tables, and Sophia concluded it was a drawing room. Another door, this one closed, stood next to it, and a short hallway extended the width of the house to another set of stairs, this one uncarpeted, at the far end, ascending to the top of the house. The hall was lined with doors, four of them, and Daphne turned to Sophia again, this time with her eyes asking the question where next? Sophia stepped past her and looked down the hall. Two of the doors had light shining from beneath them. She put her lips to Daphne’s ear and said, “Did the person you heard go up the other stairs?”

Daphne considered for a moment, then shook her head. That meant one of those two lit rooms, at least, was occupied. They had no way of knowing which was Lord Endicott’s bedchamber… although…

Sophia took in the scene as a whole. There were two doors on either side of the hall. On the side facing Windermere Street, the doors were equally spaced; on the side facing the rear, they were off-center, with much more wall space between the far door and the end of the hallway. Enough space for a bedchamber and a dressing room? She had no doubt a man like Lord Endicott, for whom appearance was paramount, would require plenty of room for his wardrobe.

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