Her Stepmother Sent Her to the Duke as a Joke – He Offered Her a Chair Before He Said a Word

jerked to a halt. The driver, a miserable-looking man with a soaked hat, didn’t bother to open the door.

Norah opened it herself, stepping down into an inch of freezing mud. The cold bit through her thin leather boots instantly.

She paid the driver his fare, three of her four shillings, and watched the hack turn and rattle away back down the long drive,continue reading …