
You are Alice Vavasor, engaged to the steady, patient John Grey but still resisting the wedding date your family keeps expecting you to name. A planned Swiss tour with your cousin George, the man you once nearly married, alarms your aunt Lady Macleod and shadows a family dinner where George needles John about old attachments. John accepts the trip without pretending to like it, then asks, plainly, for a date to build your home on — and the chapter ends before you answer.
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