Miranda cringed at her mother"s suggestion, though she didn"t allow her distaste to show. She did not want to live her life that way. She would prefer never to marry at all than to enter into marriage accepting she would stray once her duty of providing her husband with an heir was complete.
"I will have made my decision by the end of the Season," she murmured. "Perhaps you should write Michael and tell him to sell out. Papa will need him once I"m gone."
"You shouldn"t be burdened with so much of the estate work anyway. Why does your father employ a bailiff if there is still so much work to be done?"
Miranda wasn"t going to argue with her mother, again, about the importance of landholders keeping an eye on their investments. Much damage could be done by absentee landlords. She stood and
