The Governess Heiress

‘Now that really is a hard question.’

‘I know I shouldn’t pry into the feelings of my elders, since you told me so, but do you still miss your mama and papa?’

‘At times; although my mama died when I was little more than a babe, so I don’t really remember her, and my father was more often away from home than in it during the last few years of his life. I do still miss him though, yes. I found it very hard to be parted from my brother when he was sent to school as well, so I’m glad you and Caroline are together and can share your feelings as well as your memories. Lavinia and Penny love you both as well, however little they choose to show it at times. I suppose the pressure on the heir to produce a boy was so strong in your family that Lavinia has always felt herself at a disadvantage and she is unsure of herself and a little jealous of those who seem to be more fortunate.’

‘I will remember that and try to make allowances, but you don’t like to talk about yourself, do you, Miss Court?’ Georgiana responded with a direct stare that made Nell feel she was the younger of them for once.

She had hoped nobody would notice her habit of turning the subject and not giving anything away about her past that she didn’t have to, but Georgiana was a lot more perceptive than most people realised. ‘I’m not a very interesting topic,’ she replied warily.

‘Now there you are quite wrong, Miss Court. Mr Moss finds you as much of a mystery as we Selfords do. All the time we were talking about farmers and cows and fields at least half his attention was fixed on you.’

‘No, it wasn’t. He thinks me an antidote and was very happy to talk to you this morning instead of me, so please don’t start imagining otherwise, Georgiana. Your matchmaking efforts are unwelcome at the best of times and Mr Moss would laugh himself hoarse if he could hear you now.’

‘Which would be very ungentlemanly of him, don’t you think? Although I doubt he would; he seems a kind man under that teasing manner of his.’

‘I don’t think we know him well enough to say if he is kindly or not yet, Georgiana, and if I did want more to do with the gentleman than I have to because we work for the same employer he’d be horrified. I doubt I ever came across a gentleman less likely to be in search of a wife than that one and I’m certainly not the woman to make him change his mind.’

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