A Difficult Truce by Joan Wolf

Author:Joan Wolf [Wolf, Joan]
Language: por
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

softly-drawn-back moonlight of her hair. His own voice was detached as he said, “And you want to know if she is telling the truth?”

She had walked to the window, but at that she swung around. “Charles!” Incredulity was in her voice.

“Of course she isn’t telling the truth.” Her eyes blazed. “How dare she slander you like that? I was so angry I almost struck her.” Scorn rang in her voice. “But all she could do was cry.”

His voice was steady, but there was something in it that pierced the shell of her anger and focused all her attention on him. “How can you be so sure?” he asked.

She crossed the room until she stood directly before him. “Because I know you.”

His mouth twisted. “Do you take me for such a saint?”

Her gaze never faltered. “No. I have a very good idea of what you are. And you are not a man who would take advantage of an unprotected girl who is a member of your household.”

He rested his cheek on the top of her shining hair. When he spoke his voice was very gentle. ‘“By hir the vertue of the Starrs downe slide, In hir is vertues perfect image cast.’” He looked at her, his eyes very bright in his tan face. “I don’t deserve you. But I have no intention of giving you up.”

She reached up to briefly touch his cheek. “I hope not. But what are we going to do about Jenny?”

He frowned. “I don’t know. God knows what made her blame me.”

Christina looked from his strong slender hands to the beautiful, arrogant lines of his face. Her eyes suddenly sparkled with mischief. “Wishful-thinking, I expect,” she said.

He looked startled, then, to her infinite delight, embarrassed. “Don’t be ridiculous,” he said shortly.

Christina straightened her shoulders. “Well, we can’t have her going around telling everyone you are her seducer. I shall have to get to the bottom of it.” He watched her march to the door. “If only she wouldn’t cry so much!” she said disgustedly.

True to her word, Christina got Jenny to admit that she had been having an affair with one of the Duke’s young grooms. She had feared to get him dismissed from his post. With great dispatch, the Duchess saw the two young people married and packed off to Strands where they could live in one of the estate cottages. True to form, Jenny cried copiously through all the proceedings.

Finally, on October 15, the Duke and Duchess of Dacre departed for Ireland.

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