“Well, we have saved the pretty redhead from him for the moment.”
“Pretty?” Charles exclaimed. “She is lovely! And I am sure we can find her a decent husband who would be kind to her.”
“I am even prepared to be kind to her myself,” Jimmy said, “but I think my family would shoot me if I married a tradesman’s daughter.”
“So would mine,” Charles agreed.
“Well, I am quite certain that, at the suggestion of any other position in our lives, she would be off to the Convent again!”
“I am sure she would,” Jimmy said. “Equally it’s the greatest bit of luck that she dislikes men.
It means she will keep the Marquis at arm’s length and that will surprise him. Apart from anything else, he is quite certain he is irresistible.”
“He is,” Charles said drily. “We established that a long time ago.”
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