Chapter 4By breakfast time, Percy had returned to his rooms and once arrayed in day wear, he was completing his toilette for the morning ahead. For once, he was thankful for Nathan’s habit of getting them both out on horseback before the start of the day. A most agreeable exercise. Or rather, two splendid rides, he thought with a smirk, recalling Nathan’s outstandingly vigorous midnight performance in bed.
Before placing the sheet of paper in his top pocket, Percy glanced at the headed letter from the family lawyer he had received some days previously, the cause of his prompt preparations. Unlike many of his contemporaries, young men who outran their allowances to such a degree that a summons to the solicitor was a regular occurrence, such formal correspondence was sufficiently rare to ma
