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Оглавление“You did not favor me with a dance last night. I hope you’ll save one for me at the party,” Lord Kendrick said.
“I will certainly see if I can find time for a dance,” Samantha promised. “But I expect to be very busy, my lord.”
“I thought all young ladies wished to dance with eligible earls.”
Did he consider himself eligible? She thought every lady within miles must be setting her cap at him. Given his history, she’d somehow considered him immune.
“I suppose they do,” she acknowledged. “But I have no interest in attaching eligible gentlemen. Thank you for your company, my lord. I should return home.”
He looked ready to protest, eyes narrowed, head high. But he nodded a farewell, and she turned the horse. She tried to look calm, but she couldn’t keep herself from looking back. Once more he was watching her leave, but this time the determination on his face told her that he intended to learn her secrets, whether she wished it or not.