Chapter 19
ARE WE READY to go?” The Duke of Stirling gave his wife a rather exasperated look nearly a week later.
Kat started to giggle but managed to keep her amusement to herself. Caroline had spent the past quarter of an hour having her hair restyled by Kat’s dresser. Caro had decided she had to have her hair in the same fashion as Kat had worn to the last ball they’d attended.
“Yes,” Caroline said, giving her hair a gentle pat. “But you must admit, Stirling, my hair looks so much better now than when Missy did it earlier.”
“Must I?” her husband asked with a little smile. It was clear that he loved her very much. Oh, Kat knew that her cousin liked to complain about how strict he was with this or that—money, in particular—but truly they had a love that Kat could only envy.
Her mind
