Anna’s recovery of her memories started a flurry of activity at the Lennox townhouse on Half Moon Street the next morning. Coaches began to arrive just after breakfast, with well-dressed men and women greeted by the Lennox butler.
Anna was overwhelmed by the dashing gentlemen who doffed their hats and swirled about in greatcoats whilst their beautiful wives slid out of silk-hooded capes. It was eerily similar to the life she’d experienced at court, which should have put her instantly at ease. But the Anna she’d been before the shipwreck was not the Anna she’d become afterward when she’d spent time with Aiden. She didn’t immediately join these men and women who seemed so at home with one another.
Everyone was talking, each of them so clearly familiar with the others that it was like watch
