In a couple of hours she would have to give most of Rupert back to Helen, but there’d be other shows, she tried to tell herself. Swindle’s third refusal was too much for Patty’s father, who’d bought breeches specially to attend the show. “Someone’s stolen my horse. If only she could go to bed and read Mansfield Park.
She admired from afar the handsome Guy de la Tour, he who had so captivated Lavinia. She was sure he was jealous, but he’d sown a whole seed packet of doubts. I shacked up with Fen because I was dying of loneliness, and you won’t help either of us by regurgitating her memory every five minutes. Jake poured himself a drink.
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