All in Good Time (The Gilded Legacy) by Maureen Lang

Author:Maureen Lang
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2013-03-21T11:00:00+00:00

21

ON SUNDAY MORNING, Henry ordered breakfast a full two hours earlier than usual for the only day of the week he did not go to the bank. He then summoned his driver, Fallo.

“To the City Garden, sir?” Fallo asked as he opened the carriage door. He never called it City Park or Denver Park as others did, but rather what the city hoped it would become one day: a vast garden to attract respectable citizens and discourage those who only wanted to escape the city’s laws.

“No, Fallo. No walk today, at least not for now.” He handed Fallo a slip of paper with an address scrawled on it, the same slip Henry had been given yesterday afternoon by a man he’d hired to bring him information. It hadn’t taken long to figure out where Reverend Sempkins was the pastor, and just as quickly he had verified that Dessa Caldwell attended there regularly, along with the White family. Henry even knew where they sat.

As Fallo looked at the address, he uttered a cough no doubt meant to cover a gasp of surprise. Henry settled himself in the carriage without so much as a glance Fallo’s way.

Henry knew what this meant, this venture into society. What more common way was there to join a community than to attend one of its churches? Every habit he had nurtured since he’d settled in Denver protested this as the wrong thing to do. This sort of action would undoubtedly have people thinking he wanted to get to know them. He’d likely receive more invitations to social events, to dinners. All things his diligently private lifestyle had diminished, despite the brief period of resuscitation Jane’s prank at the bank had created.

Besides the obvious potential to inconvenience his entire life, he also knew this could be seen as a first step in making known his personal interest in Miss Caldwell. How could anyone see it otherwise? How could she not recognize it for what it was?

It was insane, this whole idea. Henry very nearly rapped on the carriage ceiling to have Fallo turn around. But instead he gripped the tip of his walking stick as if it were alive and he needed to subdue it.

The truth was, Henry wanted this chance. Maybe he wanted it more than he wanted to protect himself.

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