The driver bent over so that his astounded face showed through the open window. “Around, sir?”
“You heard me! Now make all possible haste!”
“Oh, oh, dear me,” Judith moaned. “I have ruined a perfectly splendid day with words I should never have uttered.”
“My good woman, nothing could be further from the truth.” Charles wanted to stop the carriage, fling open the door, and race around dancing a jig. But there was no time to waste. None. “Nothing whatsoever could be further from the truth!” he repeated.
Both women were alarmed as they stared at him. “I-I fear I don’t understand,” Judith said.
“My dear Mrs. Mann, you have made this day perfect!” He reached over and grasped her hand with both of his. “Do you have any idea, any idea at all the miracle you have just revealed to us here this very day?”
Anne gasped with the shock of realization. Her eyes grew round again as she looked from Charles to Judith.
The carriage swung wide and made the turn around, then the driver’s head appeared once more. “Begging your pardon, sir, but what is to be our new destination?”
“London!” Charles laughed as the shock spread to Judith’s features, as well. A blood relation, Percy had demanded. Someone who was linked to the Harrow name by blood would be the only assured heir, the only indisputable link to an earthly legacy. And now it was his. “Make all possible haste!”
“London it is, m’lord.”
Judith whispered, “Do you mean…”
“I do indeed, my lady. I do indeed!” John chose this moment to turn and give them his widest grin. Charles laughed in reply. “Hold fast to the lad there, my dear Anne. For in your hands rests the Viscount John Harrow, ninth earl of Sutton, and the coming heir to Harrow Hall!”
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