Chapter Seven
That is very… thoughtful of you, Miss Renwick. I appreciate you sentiments, but truly you do not need to do this.” Mr. Ritchie drew his brows down in concern, but continued to look ahead at where he was driving. Cassandra just could not concentrate on their interesting surroundings, however, she was to intent on her argument.
“But I do! If I do not, then nothing will change,” she said vehemently.
“Even if you do try, still, nothing may change.”
She did not say anything, but just looked blindly out at the street in front of them.
Was he right? Was what she was trying to do impossible?
Cassandra suddenly felt at a loss. All of her wonderful plans and ideas to change the way people treated this poor man–were they for nothing?
Mr. Ritchie turned to her as much as was pos
