As Julian Howard’s name echoed through the banquet hall, Miles Howard snapped his head up, his voice shrill: "Is this some kind of mistake?"
Secretary Fitzgerald glanced at him and retorted sharply, "The chairman has spoken."
The documents were crystal clear: the Lennox heiress, Shirley Lennox, was to be engaged to the second young master, Julian Howard.
Everyone exchanged glances, too stunned to utter a sound.
After finishing the reading, Secretary Fitzgerald looked at me kindly: "Miss Lennox, you’ve heard it, haven’t you?"
But Miles Howard reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, leaping to his feet and shouting, "Impossible!"
He snatched the documents from Secretary Fitzgerald’s hands, flipping through them in disbelief, muttering, "This must be a mistake."
He turned to
