High Society novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Magistrate Calls
My mother put out both hands and lifted the Dowager off the stones herself.
"That will do," she said.
"You'll catch your death on a wet floor, and then I'll have you to bury."
The court cheered.
On Sunday at noon the Earl came to Denholm House with a solicitor, a clerk, and a magistrate in a bag wig.
I came down the great stair in a plain grey gown with my hair loose over my ears.
Tilly walked two paces behind me with her hands folded and her face shining with innocence.
The drawing room had been cleared of everything but chairs.
The Earl sat on the right with his gold-topped cane across his knees, and he did not rise.
"Lady Charlotte," said the magistrate, a thin old man with a cold.
"I regret the necessity."
"I regret your cold, sir," I said.
"Have a lozenge."
Somebody coughed to cover a laugh, and it was not Hugh.
The solicitor opened with a long speech about the will, the contract and the consent of an eldest living child.
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