Tempest, sharpened voice, correcting course;
Tempest, sharpened voice, correcting course;new explorations of character and choice.
new explorations of character and choice.The following afternoon, the duke’s butler answered the door at Markham House. Once John had produced his calling card to the slim, older man with the unusually hoarse voice, the butler had inspected it carefully, bowed, and then left him standing alone in the hall. This was promising; it appeared Halmesbury had not left for his country seat to summer in Wiltshire but was still in residence in London, to John’s great relief. It was as if fate was in his favor today.
Shortly, he was shown down a grand hall bedecked with oil paintings framed in ornate gilt, and then into the duke’s study, where an eclectic collection of
