One Mystical Moment: A Laura Landon Novella by Laura Landon

Author:Laura Landon [Landon, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prairie Muse Books Inc
Published: 2018-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

The next day went by in a frenzy. There was a great deal of laughter amid the goings on. It was the very sort of thing that could annoy Frank, yet here at Cherrywood Manor he found himself laughing right along with everyone else.

It felt strange. It felt foreign. It felt remarkably good.

Frank, George and Tillie assumed the task of entertaining Lady Corrine and Lady Felicity. Although, as it turned out, George and Lady Corrine were so engrossed in talking with each other, that it left Frank and Tillie with Lady Felicity. Not that Frank minded. Felicity’s mother warned her to retire early, since she was recovering from a recent respiratory illness. It would give Frank and Tillie plenty of time to sneak away and meet in the summerhouse, as they did each evening.

Today they’d all gone for a walk in the garden.

“Do you think I need to warn Mother that she may be planning an event in the near future,” Lady Felicity asked, looking over her shoulder to where her sister and George walked far enough behind that their conversation couldn’t be overheard.

“Oh, I don’t think so. Your sister and my brother have only known each other a few days. I suspect that they’ve just formed a friendship.” Tillie lifted her gaze to meet Frank’s. “Don’t you think?”

Frank stifled the laugh that threatened to burst from him. He arced one eyebrow in a roguish manner and stared at her. “Yes, I’m sure you’re right. After all, it took us ages to form a friendship.”

Tillie’s eyes opened wide.

“Oh,” Lady Felicity said. “I didn’t know you’d known each other that long. I assumed from what Lord Beckett said that you’d just recently met.”

“Yes, well… ” Tillie stammered. “Perhaps it hasn’t been… ages, but then it has been several weeks.”

“Yes,” Frank agreed. “Weeks. Approximately two weeks and four days.”

The look Tillie gave him made Frank laugh all the harder.

“What is so humorous?” George said as he and Corrine came up behind them.

“Oh, I was just laughing at your sister. She seems to have lost track of time.”

“Well,” George continued as if he didn’t see what was so funny about that, “Lady Corrine suggested we go for a sleigh ride. Would you like to join us?”

“As if we have a choice,” Tillie said. “You can hardly go off by yourselves. Someone must go with you.”

“I’m sure Felicity wouldn’t mind going,” Lady Corrine said.

Everyone looked at Lady Corrine’s younger sister. “I’m afraid Miss Rowley and Major Collyard will have to accompany you. I’m quite chilly and am going indoors. I’ll tell Mother that you’re going for a sleigh ride and will return before you freeze.”

With that, Lady Felicity returned to the house and Frank and Tillie were left to go for a sleigh ride. Not that Frank minded. In fact he couldn’t think of too many things he’d rather do than spend the afternoon bundled beneath blankets in the rear seat of a sleigh with his sweetheart. Even if it meant serving as chaperone to George and Corrine.

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