High Society novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: Her Terms
We rode back in the plain carriage with the Dowager behind us in her hired chair.
Hugh sat on the far seat with his arms crossed and looked at the roofs.
I let him have a street and a half of silence.
"Say it," I said.
"The lie is dead."
"Is it?"
"It was built to find an elder sister who could say no to a marriage."
"There is no sister, Effie."
"There is a stone in a yard in Bloomsbury and a woman in black who put it there."
"I will not stand a laundress before a magistrate and swear to the stone."
"I hired you for a game."
"You did not hire me for a grave."
"Hugh."
"The Earl wins at Michaelmas, and I will take the farms to the auction myself."
"Three hundred tenants out on the roads, and your court gone with them."
I hit the roof of the carriage with the flat of my hand.
It was a good loud thump, and the coachman jumped.
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