Honor continued the rest of her week blissfully unaware of any gossip regarding her and the Duke of Kildare. She went about finding contractors for the repairs and improvements to Lochwood without the slightest inkling of any talk, but even if the whispers had met her ears she would have only laughed. The gossip of ton was of little concern to her these days. She was consumed with owning her own home, her own future--her own life. No one could ruin this for her. It was too important to her. In fact, it meant everything.
It was virtually unheard of in England for any young woman of breeding to live on her own until she was over thirty or widowed, but Scotland seemed to take these matters less seriously. Still, as a bow to propriety, she had invited Fiona's impoverished cousin Meaghan to li
