![]() ![]() Poppy and Beatrix had successfully navigated a London season, at last. Naturally Leo hadn’t been able to resist mocking Marks’s poetic abilities, but he had to admit privately that her methods had worked. The Hathaways had moved to the Ramsay estate in Hampshire, where they had struggled to adjust to the demands of their new life. Although he had trained to be an architect, he was now a viscount with land and tenants. However, after a series of unlikely events, Leo had inherited the title of Lord Ramsay. Their father, Edward Hathaway, had been a medieval history scholar, considered a man of good blood but hardly an aristocrat. They had been reared in a strictly middle-class environment, in a village west of London. And they had needed an inordinate amount of help, since none of the Hathaways had ever expected to mingle in the upper circles of British society. She had done an excellent job of instructing his two youngest sisters, Poppy and Beatrix, in the finer points of social etiquette. ![]() It wasn’t that Leo found fault with Marks’s actual abilities. ![]() Instead the Hathaway family had hired Catherine Marks, who, in Leo’s opinion, cast an unflattering shadow upon the entire profession. Leo, Lord Ramsay, wondered in exasperation why they couldn’t have gotten one of those. They were also supposed to be quiet, subservient, and obedient, not to mention deferential to the master of the house. ![]() Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden. ![]()
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