Chapter 7
Mrs Linton-Smythe was not the only person to have observed how very many dancing partners Jemima stood up with that evening.
Glowering in a corner, the Earl of Southwell resolved many times to quit the damned rout, but he never did. Instead he remained there, determined to ignore the young woman with the silver-grey eyes, and failing dismally in the attempt. Among all the dancers in their various-hued robes, the Lady Incognita stood out from them like a candle. Slender, pale and glowing.
Marcus was a moth to her flame. He could not take his eyes off her.
This did not go unnoticed by George Gresham. Having never before seen Southwell disturbed so by a female, he was intensely amused.
"The Carlingford girl is quite the toast of the evening, is she not? There are several men wh
