Chapter 13It's marriage for the Duke of Hasting and Miss Bridgerton!
This Author must take this opportunity to remind you, dear reader, that the forthcoming nuptials were predicted in this very column. It has not escaped the note of This Author that when this newspaper reports a new attachment between an eligible gentleman and an unmarried lady, the odds in the betting books at gentleman's clubs change within hours, and always in favor of marriage .
Although This Author is not allowed in White's, she has reason to believe that the official odds concerning the marriage of the duke and Miss Bridgerton were 2-1 for.
Lady Whistledowns Society Papers,21 May 1813
The rest of the week flew by in a rush. Daphne didn't see Simon for several days. She might have thought he'd left town, except t
