
You had finished every lesson you could manage without Mary and began drawing Lady Ethelinda spending an impossible fortune on cousins and cottages. Your grand lady has a microscope for Armyn, ponies for us, and paper enough never to use both sides. You step into this one-chapter preview with Mary Wardour at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. He promised to look in once more before leaving, but sleep reached you before his return and closed the first night of being Countess of Caergwent. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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