Chapter Forty-One
Pip met a marquis and a marchioness later that afternoon and a duchess that evening, and the next day she met an earl, two lords and their wives, a Miss Pryor, two Mr. Pryors, and a duke’s illegitimate son. All the men had the Pryor eyes and nose, which made it extremely confusing. Pip drew a family tree and jotted down notes to help her distinguish one man from another.
Nonus, the youngest son of Lord Tertius Pryor, was the most conspicuous of the Pryor cousins. He reminded her of nothing so much as a great overgrown puppy. Or perhaps an elephant.
He wasn’t a bully, but he was a prankster. A prankster who could become invisible. Fortunately, he was so loud that all his attempts to creep up on his family failed.
“We can hear you,” his father said, not even looking up
