Chapter Fourteen
“No, I’m sorry, but I beg to differ, Lady Sorrell. Shakespeare does make good use of the chorus in his plays,” Lydia argued. They’d somehow found each other in the crowded ballroom and, after the initial pleasantries, had fallen right back into the discussion they’d had at Lady Crowther’s soiree earlier that week. “Just look at Romeo and Juliet, at Henry V.”
“Yes, naturally in those plays, but he doesn’t use the technique as prevalently as the Greeks did,” Lady Sorrell said with a smile, keeping the debate friendly.
“Well, no,” Lydia conceded. “It isn’t an integral part—”
“But then why would he seek her out?” Lady Sorrell interrupted. “He knew she didn’t dance, I think he was just trying to make her look bad—worse than a cut direct, I tell you,” she said.
Lydia had no
