The Duke Hadn’t Laughed Since the War

gave me was the house wax, miss, not the solicitors’.”

“Did you keep the original wrapping?”

He stared at her. “I… I… yes, miss, it’s in my coat. I don’t know why I kept it.”

People who do not know why they keep things often keep the right things; she had learned this and had been counting on it. The days before the Wetmores arrived were not quiet, but continue reading …