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Well. If this just doesn’t take the biscuit. Just when she thought the night couldn’t get any worse.
“Are you mad? I would never court Penelope Featherington. Not in your wildest fantasies, Fife!”
The boy she’s loved since she first laid eyes on him all those years ago, disparaging her for all the Ton to hear. She’d put up with it when he’d implied she did not count as a woman. Helped to free him from a planned entrapment by her own cousin, to her own family's detriment. Accepted that he only saw her as a friend. She had worked very hard on that part.
Penelope is a lady. She does not curse. But this is a step too damn far.
In one night she’s discovered her cousin Jack has been fleecing the Ton and has chosen to run, leaving the Featheringtons ruined and practically destitute. Her best friend Eloise has discovered that she is Lady Whistledown, declared them no longer friends and ravaged her bedroom. They had fought so viciously, words spoken in the heat of the moment, explanations and apologies ignored.
Any other night she would have fled in tears at Colin’s words. But tonight? After all this? She is fuming.