Chapter Seventeen
“I knew it!” gushed Maggie delightedly. When we delivered the news of our impending matrimony to her door on the following evening, she greeted each of us with a bone crushing hug “The two of you have been closeted in your hermitage up there in your cozy cottage day after day, how scandalously amusing it has all been to me. I have been eagerly anticipating the day when you would come up for air long enough to announce your future intentions.”
She winked at me. “Is she keeping you in line, Reggie?”
I grinned back, feeling very much like a costumed actor playing my part in some domestic comedy. Yet, at the same time I was also wondering if Maggie’s teasing revealed a secret knowing. The idea that Daphne had been conspiring somehow with her Auntie to ensnare me could only
