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June 1815
Hundreds of years ago, Stonehill had been a castle. Now, it was a
large country house built within the last hundred years with a
Palladian front. The façade was beautiful, but Ada Treadway
would have preferred the castle.
Dark storm clouds hovered in the south, as if she needed to be reminded
that this errand could be fraught with turmoil. Could be? Ada suspected
nothing less from the Viscount Warfield.
The coach, which belonged to her employer, Lord Lucien Westbrook,
rumbled to a stop in front of the entrance to the house. The coachman
opened the door, and Ada stepped out into the early evening. A brisk wind
whipped the ribbons of her hat beneath her chin. It seemed the storm was
coming quickly. There was no avoiding it now.
“I’ll fetch your case, Miss Treadway,” the coachman said.
Thanking him, Ada started toward the house. The door did not
magically open when she arrived at the threshold. So she knocked.
The coachman arrived beside her. “No one’s come to greet you?”
“Not yet.” Ada knocked again, this time with more vigor.
Another moment passed and still nothing. Frowning, the coachman
looked about. “Perhaps I should take the coach to the stable and find
someone there.”
“There must be someone in the house,” Ada reasoned, knocking a third
time.
At last, there seemed to be a sound beyond the door—footsteps.
The door swung open to reveal a small red-faced woman with graying
brown hair and weary chestnut eyes. “Begging your pardon, miss. My son
—that is, the footman—is busy at the moment, and I’m afraid I was
belowstairs.” She summoned a smile, but it was hard-fought, or so it
seemed to Ada.
“Good evening,” Ada said warmly. “I’m here to help Lord Warfield with
his ledgers.”
“Yes, I received a letter from Lord Lucien about your arrival. Do come
in. I’m Mrs. Bundle, the housekeeper.” She stepped aside, holding the door.
Looking to the coachman, she said, “If you’ll leave her case here in the hall,
my son will fetch it shortly. I know you need to tend the horses.”
“Thank you.” The coachman inclined his head before setting Ada’s
traveling case just inside the doorway. He nodded at Ada before departing
for the stable.
Ada doubted she would see him again before he left in the morning.
He’d be back in a fortnight to fetch her back to London. “Thank you,
Jackson,” she called after him.
Returning her attention to Mrs. Bundle, Ada clasped her hands before
her. “I can carry my own case upstairs—I don’t mind. If you’ll just show
me the way to my room?”
A tall, rather lean young man hurried into the hall just then. His brown
eyes were the same color as his mother’s and held the same weariness. No,
not quite the same, for his mother possessed many more years of experience
that made her gaze heavier.
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