Название: The Officer and the Proper Lady
Автор: Louise Allen
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежные любовные романы
isbn: 9781408924099
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‘Nothing,’ she denied vehemently, managing to blush rosily at the same time. She had done nothing that Charles Fordyce knew about, that was true. But she had done more than enough with Hal Carlow to send her mother into fits of the vapours.
‘Julia,’ her mother began as Lady Geraldine’s eyebrows arched in surprise.
‘I let slip that I know him. So Mr Fordyce treated me to a lecture on the danger to my reputation. Which he had no call to do,’ she added hotly, guilt making her protest too much. ‘Anyone would think he had made me an offer.’
‘Who?’ Mrs Tresilian gasped. ‘Which of them? What kind of offer?’
‘Mr Fordyce. Marriage,’ Julia said, hanging on to her temper with difficulty. ‘But he has not.’ What was the matter with her? She never lost her temper, never answered Mama back. And now listen to her!
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