The Ghost of Glendale by Kleinman Natalie

Author:Kleinman, Natalie
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2018-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Phoebe, spending the evening with so many friends and neighbours, couldn’t help enjoying herself. Harriet Fairweather chose to surround herself with people and would have done so every day had her long-suffering husband not begged for the occasional respite. “Which is all very well, my dear, but he takes as much delight as I do in having company,” she assured Phoebe. She had invited only ten couples, “for I much prefer it when I can speak to everyone present, a proper conversation you understand, rather than a snatched word or two.” Phoebe was extremely fond of Harriet who had been a close friend of her mother and had figured largely in her childhood before Emily’s demise. And afterwards too, for having no children of her own she had made sure to see her goddaughter regularly. Edward having withdrawn into himself was of little help and Rupert was her only contemporary, though older by three years.

“My cousin has expressed the same opinion. It seems that small gatherings are more to her taste than the large functions she was obliged to attend in London. It is kind of you to include her.”

“Not at all. She is an asset to any occasion.”

It was true. Lydia, in the short time she had been in Somerset, had endeared herself to all. Harriet looked across the room to where Miss Talbot was deep in conversation with Rupert.

“I wonder will they make a match of it, those two?” she asked Phoebe, whose ready smile reached her eyes in spite of her own situation.

“I hope so. How my aunt will regard such an alliance is another consideration.”

“You think she will not approve?”

“She has but recently lost one of her daughters to matrimony. She may not yet be ready to lose another.”

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