Read an Excerpt From Freya Marske's Delightfully Horny, Magical Murder Mystery
the majority of the table seemed content to ignore her. She chewed over this problem, along with a slice of rare roast beef, while Miss Debenham gestured for more champagne and then flirted outrageously with the serving steward, to her relatives’ rigid discomfort. It didn’t matter what anyone thought of Miss Maud Cutler, who didn’t exist, except that Maud needed people togave a short speech of formal welcome.
Mr. Chapman hastily volunteered that he saw no shame in money coming from hard work, and that his own family’s wealth was in cotton mills. He had been to America to learn more about the state of the cotton industry there, and to co sider the purchase of some modern machines for his father’s factories.new money aboard.” Mrs. Babcock appeared to decide that if everyone else planned to indulge in the vulgarity of this conversational topic, she wasn’t going to be left out.
“I say, mater,” said Mr. Blackwood suddenly, “isn’t that—” Another invisible kick was delivered. For some reason, bothBlackwoods now looked at Miss Debenham as though she were a barrel of gunpowder rolled perilously close to a flame.AdvertisementMaud clenched a hand in her napkin. “Lord Hawthorn?” “Are you acquainted?” asked Mrs. Blackwood, sharp. Thewhole family now watched Maud with the same wary interest as they had when she’d mentioned magic.
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