Chapter 16
Was her heart black with sin or was she a blameless angel?
Lord Peregrine had never felt so conflicted in his life as he sat opposite Xenia on their short ride to their evening’s entertainment. No, he was not thinking about Xenia. As ever, his thoughts centred upon Miss Rosington.
He glanced at his well-turned calves in his white silk stockings above silver buckled shoes and below his black pantaloons. Carstairs used false padding to create what Perry had been granted in a generous allocation of physical attributes at birth. What would prompt Miss Rosington to choose that puny physical specimen Carstairs over himself?
Then there was the opposite conundrum. If she spoke the truth when she declared she’d been the one deceived, could she truly believe Perry was behind her fall
