About this story
Your cousin George's botched pistol at Duke Street sends him to Quebec quietly, and your friend Glencora, safe from Burgo Fitzgerald at last, refuses the Duchess of Omnium's grand Gatherum party in her own hand. Sixty chapters carry you from a green drawing room to your wedding at Nethercoats and the bean garden where Glencora's question is answered.
How it opens
Green paper, green curtains, and green chairs made the drawing room oppressively complete.
John VavasorThe furniture is sound, Alice, which is more than fashion usually achieves.
Your father preferred his club and left you to inhabit his economical taste alone.
Lady MacleodShut the window, my dear. I am warm enough to fear the draught.
Choose
A borrowed place in her carriage is not an invitation to her house.
I will attend when Lady Midlothian troubles herself to call here.