” “But Kit died and Nicholas became the earl,” Dougless said softly. I saw Lee after you left, and he told me all about Lettice and Robert Sydney . “You said that Lord Nicholas Stafford was executed. And three of them were owned by the Stafford family.
Dougless thought they were beautiful, but Nicholas curled his lip and barely looked at the flowering plants and the ancient shade trees. “It is true that I believed that at first, but I have not slept since you called me into the rain and I have now had time to consider more thoroughly. In his mind, marriage should be a contract, something made as an alliance, made to breed a suitable heir. His commitment lay with the city, not to any grandiose concept of its destiny but to the honorable task of doing better whatever limited assignment he was given.
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