Love for Lucinda
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“I expect that she was just expressing her happiness,” said Lucinda soothingly. There was the hint of a quiver about her lips, however, for she could well imagine the scene.
“Well, she can express it all over Lord Potherby’s coat front if that is what he likes,” said Lord Mays wrathfully. “It quite put me off my sandwich, let me tell you. That started me thinking about Miss Blythe’s dissolving into tears—who would have thought she had it in her!—and I realized just what I was up against.”
“Whatever do you mean?” asked Lucinda, fascinated by his expression.
“Why, I know how tenderhearted you are. You wouldn’t be able to stand for Miss Blythe to be unhappy. You would put me off, just until she got used to the idea, and then where would we be?”
Lord Mays answered his own rhetorical question. “There would be something else come up, such as your parents taking a dislike to me because of Mays, though we were never in the least alike. Or Potherby would switch his allegiance from Agnes to you again, and I couldn’t have blamed him, for a sillier female I have never seen. Then there is your cousin Stassart—”
Lucinda was openly laughing by this time. “Wilfred, you dear sweet man. You are right, of course. We must not waste a moment. It will have to be a special license.”
“A special license?” repeated Lord Mays. His crooked grin slowly appeared. “It will cause a flurry of gossip, Lucinda.”
Lucinda walked her fingers up his damp lapel, obviously the area that had suffered the full onslaught of Agnes’s happy storm. “My dear Lord Mays, I have been the center of speculation for years. It scarcely seems right to leave it all behind with a perfectly tame wedding ceremony.”
Lord Mays caught her in such a tight embrace that it felt as though her ribs were cracking. But Lucinda did not care in the least. He was kissing her in a very thorough and satisfactory manner.
Copyright © 1996 by Gayle Buck
Originally published by Signet (ISBN 0451186214)
Electronically published in 2010 by Belgrave House/Regency Reads
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