Chapter 19The new Duchess of Hastings was spotted in Mayfair today. Philipa Featherington saw the former Miss Daphne Bridgerton taking abit of air as she walked briskly around the block. Miss Featherington called out to her, but the duchess pretended not to hear .
And we know the duchess must have been pretending, for after all, one would have to be deaf to let one of Miss Featherington's shouts go unnoticed .
Lady Whistledown's Society Papers,9 June 1813
Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache, the kind that one could almost, but never quite, ignore.
She left Castle Clyvedon the day after Simon's departure, heading to London with every intention of
