Chapter Fifteen
TERESA LEANED FORWARD at the edge of her chair, intent on the large woman standing at the front of the room. Richard was impressed as well with Signora Capellini’s voice as it flowed and dipped effortlessly in song. But he had heard the Signora sing before and so was not as enthralled.
Lady Thorpe’s musicales were very well regarded among the ton. She always managed to get the best musicians and singers to perform for her “little get-togethers”. It was, therefore, a rather overcrowded drawing room in which they sat in closely placed chairs—latecomers, being not so lucky, were forced to stand around the walls of the room. Richard desperately wished someone had had the forethought to leave some windows open as the room was getting rather warm and close.
And, of course, a
