“Many girls want dukes, Miss Prestwick. Indeed, I should say all girls would like one. Why should you get your duke?”
Penelope Prestwick smiled, and with a tilt of her dark head said, “Because, Lady Dalby, I can afford one.”
Sophia nearly laughed out loud. She didn’t, but it was a near thing.
“Darling, we are going to get along famously.”
Claudia Dain is an award-winning author and two-time RITA finalist. She lives in the Southeast and is at work on Sophia’s next highly successful attempt at matchmaking.