Chapter 19Lady Mottram’s annual ball was a crush, as always, but society watchers could not fail to note that Lord and Lady Bridgerton did not make an appearance.
Lady Mottram insists that they had promised to attend, and This Author can only speculate as to what kept the newlyweds at home…
LADY WHISTLEDOWN’S SOCIETY PAPERS, 1
3 JUNE 1814
Much later that night, Anthony was lying on his side in bed, cradling his wife, who had snuggled her back up to his front and was presently sleeping soundly.
Which was fortunate, he realized, because it had started to rain.
He tried to nudge the covers up over her exposed ear so that she would not hear the drops beating against the windows, but she was as fidgety in sleep as she was when awake, and he could not manage to pull the coverlet much above
