Chapter 22 KAT DIDN’T KNOW if she should be upset or relieved she was called away before she and Jack had finished speaking. She did wonder if he’d meant to actually propose, or if that had just been her fanciful imagination. Wishful thinking? Dread? She still couldn’t decide. After an entire night of tossing and turning, trying to think through how she felt about the man, she was no closer to discovering her true feelings than she had been when Jack had asked if he could call on her. She’d been so shocked to see him at Lady Cowper’s soiree that she hadn’t been able to sort out what she even felt about his sudden rise in status. Who would have ever thought that Jack the Lad was from the nobility? Yes, he was thoughtful and kind, but you didn’t need to be born into the upper classes

