You were stomping on Mayne's toes the other night." "One should be able to dance," Annabel noted. "I know nothing of the marriage market." She was sorting silk stockings and didn't even look up from the dressing table. "I am making a study of the skills required to succeed in the marriage market and since you two are both married, you are my primary sources of information." "That is precisely the kind of advice I need." Josie snapped open a small book and poised her quill. "Given that men make slim use of their heads," Annabel, the Countess of Ardmore said, "you don't have to threaten decapitation simply allow the fellow to believe that he made up his own mind about marriage." She was tucked in Imogen's bed and appeared little more than a tousle of curls peeking from under the bedcovers. "I'd remove his head from his body," Josie said with dignity. "What if he refused?" Imogen, sometimes known as Lady Maitland, asked. "I would simply command an appropriate man to marry me by special license." "I wish I were a queen," Miss Josephine Essex said to two of her elder sisters. The Taming of the Duke Chapter One In Which the Curiosities of Courtship are Reviewed
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