What happens when a determined Regency widow suspects her oldest friend is keeping dangerous secrets?
In this scene from Lady Wynwood’s Spies, Volume 1: Archer, Lady Wynwood invites Solomon Drydale to tea—and promptly begins an interrogation.
“Tea?” Laura offered.
Sol eyed it. “Is it poisoned?”
“Would you believe me if I told you no?”
“No,” he answered baldly.
“No tea, then.” She took a slightly perverse satisfaction in sipping her tea while studying him.
Sol shifted in his chair in the silence. “I was surprised to receive your note today, asking me to call upon you when I had seen you only a few days ago.”
“Eighty-four hours ago, in fact.”
Sol cleared his throat. “Just so that I’m aware of the situation, are you upset with me or with something that happened while we were at Lady Meynhill’s birthday celebration?”
Her eyes narrowed at him.
He sighed and answered his own question. “Both.”
“You promised me that long discussion, did you not?”
He colored slightly but gave a smile full of all the charm he could infuse it with, including that adorable—er, lone dimple on his left cheek. “But I sent you that note as soon as I returned to town late Saturday—actually, quite early Sunday morning.”
She raised her eyebrows. “Oh. The one that said, ‘All are well. Thanks for your help this weekend.’”
“It was not that terse, surely.”
“It was nearly that terse. But it was not your letter, Sol. I realize there are certain things about which you cannot speak.” She had purposefully never spoken to him about his clandestine work for the government officials in the Home Office. She had suspected—how could she not, when she and Sol had been such close friends in the ten years since her husband died? Although she had not known about Sol’s work for the government when they had first met decades ago at her debut into society, she had observed him closely enough in the past few years to know that he was involved in some way in the government’s efforts against France’s secretive infiltration of these shores. And then his mysterious agenda at the birthday celebration this past weekend had solidified it in her mind, although he had never overtly spoken about it.
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