![]() ![]() Henry spoke up, frustration and anger on his little face, as though he were prepared to avenge his lady. Temple remembered the tears in her eyes that night that he’d left her naked in the boxing ring, and shame coursed through him. Daniel was holding Lavender under one arm.ĭaniel scowled at him. Temple turned to find a collection of small boys above him on the landing, each looking more worried than the last. ![]() Halfway down the final set of steps, a small voice came from the shadows, staying his movement. ![]() He bowed, short and perfunctory, turned on his heel, and left the room, leaded down the stairs to the exit. ![]() “So you can see why it is that I was rather hoping you would turn up. “Of course.” Lydia knew better than to argue. “I’m not certain why the gloves matter so much-” “She left here in the dead of winter with no gloves and no money.” And then he would lock her in a room and never let her go, hang sanity. He had to retain his sanity if he was going to find her. “It’s because she loves you that she left. “Don’t you see, Your Grace,” Lydia explained. “If she were in love, she wouldn’t have left me in the first place.” “You don’t understand women in love, do you?” She wouldn’t have taken anything from you. “I offered her enough to keep her for years. “A few shillings, but nothing substantial.” ![]()
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