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April 1815
Nottinghamshire, England
Corbin Jonquil knew he really ought to be listening to the sermon. That
was the point of attending church, after all. Of late, he seldom heard a single
word the vicar uttered—not since Mrs. Bentford had joined the congregation.
Mrs. Bentford, a widow of no more than twenty-two or twenty-three,
possessing more than her share of beauty and a sizable enough portion to
have purchased a more-than-respectable cottage nearby, had taken the
neighborhood quite by storm only a few months earlier.
Rumors abounded regarding the latest addition to the very small circle of
families surrounding the minuscule town of Grompton. Some claimed she
had been married to a nabob with more fortune than status. Others believed
she had possessed a fortune of her own and married a man beneath her for
love. Nothing, however, raised greater speculation than her children.
Mrs. Bentford had two: a boy and a girl. Her son appeared to be six or
seven years old and looked absolutely nothing like his mother. Her daughter
appeared to be about three years old and her mother’s exact copy in
miniature. The neighborhood alternately labeled her son a stepchild, a
product of her husband’s first marriage, or a ward left to her by a distant
relative. For a lady of twenty-two to have a seven-year-old son required her
to have become a mother at the almost unmarriageable age of fifteen.
Naturally, the neighborhood was agog with speculation.
Corbin’s curiosity arose for entirely different reasons. Two months
earlier, during an errand in Grompton, Mrs. Bentford had crossed his path.
Corbin had raised his hat as she’d passed. She had looked directly at him and
smiled. In that brief moment, she had stolen his heart.
Corbin had sat behind Mrs. Bentford and her children every Sunday
since, watching the young family and thinking of hundreds of things he might
say to her. Good morning. Good day. That is a lovely bonnet. Inevitably,
when services came to an end, Corbin watched her leave without uttering a
single word.
He was watching her again. She didn’t wear black or even gray, so her
husband had, apparently, been gone for at least a year. That meant the little
girl with hair the color of browned bread likely had hardly known her father.
Corbin wondered if that was a tragedy or a blessing—he’d known fathers
who fell under both categories.
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