A Farm Girl's Despair (#5, the Winds of Misery Victorian Romance) (A Family Saga Novel) by Dorothy Green

Author:Dorothy Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Victorian Romance, Victorian fiction, Victorian, Historical Romance, Clean Romance, Family Sagas, Sagas
Publisher: Dorothy Green
Published: 2020-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

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It was a grey and gloomy spring day, but she rather enjoyed the grey and dark blue colours of the sky when it was overcast in such a way. The smell of rain was threatening to fall at any moment and she enjoyed the crispness of the scent. She walked through the lavender garden, allowing the scent to calm her. It was not fair. Gemma was allowed to wait until she was one and twenty before having a true prospect of marriage that she found agreeable and that also matched what their parents wanted for her. So why was she only able to have until the age of 19?

It was very unfair, and she did not want to admit to herself why she thought her parents would do such a thing. It was because they found Gemma to be quite beautiful and her denial of marriage was because she was set on finding a match that she also liked, and if she did not, her beauty would find someone for her. Whereas Hilda was quite plain and she knew that her parents thought of her as such. Therefore one year older made her unattractive to any prospects of suitors. At the age of 19, she was seen as someone that was still quite useful, and that was something. This was why her parents were rushing her.

Because of this, the lavender did not calm her nerves; these thoughts only made her angrier. How she wished that she could marry for love, and not out of responsibility. Perhaps her sister would marry Adam Crossbury after all and she could take her on as a governess. It was a future, not an agreeable one, but not a horrendous one either.

A few moments later, the heavens opened up, and fat drops of rain began to fall. But Hilda did not move. The cold water felt refreshing against her heated skin. It was helping to relieve her of some of the agony she had been feeling. But before long, she found that she was quite drenched. This was not good. For she did not wish to catch a cold.

She entered the house through the back servant stairs and made her way up to her room. She dried her hair and changed out of her wet clothing. Then she decided to go downstairs to the kitchen for a hot cup of tea to warm herself. After she drank the tea, she wanted to go back upstairs and take another try at completing her work of poetry that her mother had interrupted. Perhaps now with a clearer mind having been washed by the rain she would be more successful.

She quickly made her way passing her father's office.

“Hilda, come into my office.”

She sighed; she had already had one lecture today and did not need another.

“Yes father," She said walking in.

“Are you happy, my daughter?"

“Whatever do you mean, father?"

“I mean, you seem very distant and strange lately, ever since the night of the ball. Tell me, was a gentleman inappropriate with you? There's something very off.

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