Chapter 304: A Most Unconventional Invitation
Lyria's POV
"That was the best you could come up with?" Debbie asked, half folded over in laughter.
Bridget looked entirely unrepentant.
"It was the first thought that came to mind," she replied. "He irks me so greatly that I wish I could strike him on the head, if only once."
"Oh, I shall accompany you when you do," Margery said immediately. "I am well aware he is a Marquess, but Goddess help me, the man is so terribly proud of it. And then there are those with titles higher than his and considerably more wealth, yet they do not conduct themselves in the same manner."
"That is precisely my point," Pippa agreed. "Duke Thorncrest is one of the wealthiest men in the kingdom, yet he would far rather smile than insist someone bow simply because he happened to pass them in a corridor."
