Chapter Eleven
~May 21~
Lydia watched with fascination as the ladies of the Whist Society discussed the fate of Tina Ayres and the Duke of Warwick, but she just didn’t have the heart to join in today. Normally, she loved participating in a friend’s romantic interests. Not that she was an expert matchmaker, but she had been known to pair up a few friends.
Tina seemed to be very much in love with the Duke of Warwick, but he’d had the misfortune to propose on the very night she had been introduced to society as Lord Ayres’ daughter. Before that, she’d merely been known as an up-and-coming modiste. It was all very romantic how Tina had come to London to try to better herself with the help of her mother, Lady Norman. Sadly because Tina had been born on the wrong side of the blanket, her moth
