Chapter 16
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE Kat could see in Lady Westmore’s ball—as compared to her own debut and the other balls she’d been to in the past few weeks—was that it wasn’t as terrible a crush as some of the others had been. This was a relief for Kat.
“I feel positively bad for poor Lady Westmore,” her cousin said, looking around the ballroom soon after they’d arrived.
“You don’t sound like it. In fact, you sound rather cheerful. Do tell me, Caro, why do you feel bad for the lady?” Morgan asked with a broad smile on his face.
Caroline gave him a swat on his arm with her fan. “Impertinent man. I feel bad because there are so few people here.”
Adriana looked around. “The room is nearly full.”
“Yes! It is nearly full, which means that it isn’t completely full, nor is it packed with peop
