Lady Scandal (SCANDAL AT THE SAVOY #2) by Laura Lee Guhrke EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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London, 1898
I cannot, Madame Comtesse. You ask the impossible.”
Declarations of that sort had never bothered Lady Delia Stratham. They
rolled off of her like water off a duck’s back. “And that surprises you?” she
replied, giving the man opposite her a wink. “But, Michel, you know the
impossible is my favorite thing.”
The lithe young Frenchman on the other side of the worktable did not
respond to that bit of raillery the way she’d hoped. Instead of a goodnatured laugh, he heaved a sigh. “I tell you it cannot be done.”
Despite having heard those exact words from two other members of the
hotel staff already this morning with similar results, Delia refused to be
deterred. She gave the Savoy’s head florist her most winning smile, one that
usually disarmed even the most intransigent opponent. “But, darling,” she
began.
Michel cut her off with an outburst of French so rapid that even Delia,
fluent in that language since the age of seven, had a hard time following it.
Something about how he was not a miracle worker, nor was he a tennis ball
to be batted about, and how he wished that the managers of the Savoy
would make up their minds what they wanted. Concluding his tirade with a
few choice curses, he seized a pair of pruning shears and a handful of red
dogwood twigs from the worktable between them and began lopping off the
ends with alarming savagery.
Delia studied him, at a loss on how to proceed. Charm and wit had
always been her two greatest talents. They had not only captivated three
husbands and garnered Delia an abundance of loyal friends, but had also
inspired César Ritz, manager of London’s Savoy Hotel, to offer her a job.
The famous hotelier’s unconventional decision had shocked society, but it
had proven to be a godsend for Delia in the wake of her third husband’s
death, and in the five years since, it had also been a shining success for the
hotel.
Today, however, Delia wasn’t feeling like much of a success.
First, Escoffier, the hotel’s famous head chef, had gone into a flaming
rage at her simple inquiry as to why the napkins in the restaurant were no
longer being folded into swan shapes. He, too, had unleashed a torrent of
angry French at her, rattling off a diatribe against the new regime and their
spies—whatever that meant—and declared he could not work amid these
constant interrogations. She should, Delia was told, talk to Ritz, and he had
nothing more to say. He had then marched off to take the remainder of his
anger out on his sous-chef, and a bewildered Delia had tactfully retreated,
tabling any questions about the swans for another day.
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