“God help us,” he muttered. “And what, may I ask, could Eloise possibly have to complain about?”
Edwina smiled innocently. “Oh, nothing, really. Just that you can, at times, be a touch overprotective.”
“That’s ridiculous,” he scoffed.
Kate choked on her tea. She was quite certain that by the time their daughters were of marriageable age, Anthony would have converted todaughters were of marriageable age, Anthony would have converted to Catholicism just so that he could lock them in a convent with twelve-foot walls!
Anthony glanced at her with narrowed eyes. “What are you laughing about?”
Kate quickly patted her mouth with a napkin, mumbling, “Nothing,” under the folds of the cloth.
“Hmmmph.”
“Eloise says that you were quite the bear when Daphne was being courted by Simon,” Edwina sai
