
[I think she could be reading to an elderly employer or just enjoying herself as she waited to be summoned to do something for her employer. Don't you?]
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He took his wife’s hand again. “I actually had to travel all the way to Scotland just to find her.”
“Scotland?” Lydia cried. “But you do not sound Scottish.”
Lady Matlock laughed. “I am not. My father had died, you see. His estate passed to my uncle, and my uncle thought that it was far better that I take a position as a companion than attend school. As he saw it, I could learn all I needed to about how to behave as a proper lady while earning my keep and costing him not a cent.”
“Fortunately, years earlier, my great aunt had married a Scottish landowner,” Lord Matlock added. “And when he died, she had the great good sense to employ the prettiest companion I have ever seen.”
[from Persuading Miss Mary, book 4 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]
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Confounding Caroline ~ Delighting Mrs. Bennet ~ Loving Lydia
