Heartsease
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You are Theodora Martindale, directing a village flower festival when Mr Wingfield asks to speak with you alone: your brother Arthur, away fishing, is secretly engaged to a land agent's daughter, and the marriage may happen before your family even hears of it. With your parents abroad and the evening post closing within the hour, you and Wingfield weigh how sharply to warn Arthur and how little to judge a young woman neither of you has met. His answer reaches you a week later, already too late to stop.
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- The Letter from WrangertonMartindale Park