Chapter 6Three full weeks passed, filled with agonisingly polite interchanges. December had arrived before Charles felt ready to draw up a tentative shortlist of prospective brides. By this stage, he was impatient to return home and had no desire to linger in Bath for longer than necessary.
With the same organisational skill he’d applied to his ordering of the estate books, Charles mentally dismissed any damsels not long out of the schoolroom, as they too closely resembled friends of his sisters rather than a potential partner in life. At the other end of the marital scale, as he already had a houseful of siblings, widows encumbered with numerous infants were also excluded from his list.
Despite his strict dedication to the task in hand, he was surprised at the stir he had made in Bath s
