Curse it all! What had possessed him to engage in this absurd masquerade? If he had only had the patience to wait, Miss Landon would have come to him!
‘I had better go after her,’ he said, jumping resolutely to his feet.
‘Had ye?’ Balligumph said. ‘How do ye plan to find her?’
Aubranael blinked up at him. ‘I… well, if she is looking for me, perhaps she will return to the places we visited together before?’
‘That she may,’ the troll conceded. ‘An’ when she doesn’t find ye there, what then? Will she stand about an’ wait for ye, day after day? No, not Miss Sophy! She has other business there.’
‘What other business?’
Balligumph launched into a tale of his own, regarding Sophy’s stitchery and her hopes for a shop in Grenlowe. A shop! In Grenlowe! She actually intended to settle in Aylfenh
