The toplofty Lord Thorpe, page 17
“Jennie’s efforts have met with precious little success so far, love,” Lucy pointed out, now gnawing on her knuckle as she tilted her head and thought some more. “Perhaps it is time I exerted myself a bit on Tristan’s behalf. A man isn’t truly happy, truly fulfilled, until he is married.”
“Perhaps Tristan is the exception, pet?” Julian suggested, resting his chin on her hair.
“No,” she denied such ridiculousness out of hand. “It’s simply that he hasn’t yet found the right woman.” Just then an idea struck her and she whirled about abruptly to throw her arms around her husband’s neck. “Oh, you most wonderful, intelligent man!” she exclaimed, giving him a smacking kiss on the cheek. “The exception! That’s who we shall find for Tristan—the Exception to the Rule!”
Dexter slipped away quietly, his sympathies with Tristan, but inwardly thankful that no one considered his flightly self to be good husband material. Married—him? “Then I’d really be the village idiot!” he muttered under his breath, and pushed off down the hill.
Lord and Lady Thorpe, just then gazing contentedly into each other’s eyes, never even noticed that he was gone.
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THE TOPLOFTY LORD THORPE
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