#Stephanie laurens where the heart leads professional

He’d expressed an interest in the Foundling House, and was keen to speak further with her and her mother that was the principal reason for the dinner. His lordship was a reclusive gentleman and a great philanthropist. That evening, despite a great deal of inner railing, Penelope dutifully dressed in her best winter evening gown, an austere example of the modiste’s art in heavy silk the color of dark garnets, and accompanied her mother to dinner with Lord Montford. If anyone thinks of anything, or learns anything…” “For the moment, there’s nothing we can do. “Come-I’ll escort you home.” He glanced at the others. Could better appreciate what drove his father to give so much time to politics for years he’d thought it merely an escape from his mother’s constant social round. For the greater good of the general populace for the first time, he could see himself more directly serving a wider cause.

#Stephanie laurens where the heart leads professional

For him, the burglaries posed a professional threat, not solely to him but to the entire police force to him, rescuing the boys was part of preventing the burglaries and catching Alert.įor himself…Barnaby felt both needs keenly he wanted to rescue the boys for Penelope’s and the boys’ sakes, wanted to foil Alert’s plans for Stokes and the police force in general. While Penelope and Griselda were primarily focused on rescuing the boys, with foiling any burglaries a very secondary concern, the reverse was true for Stokes. Barnaby glanced around their small circle. But we have to do something to get those boys back!”

If we corner him while he’s got the boys tied to him…” He might not have been known as a killer before, but he smothered Jemmie’s mother, and went after Horry’s grandmother. “When experienced burglars like him are on the streets, they keep their boys on leashes, so if we stumble upon Smythe on his way to a house, or from one, he’ll have hostages. “Regardless, we’ll need to avoid cornering Smythe while he has the boys with him.” Griselda met Penelope’s eyes. But as we don’t know the items, that doesn’t get us much further.”īut it had distracted Penelope from her notion of marching around Mayfair’s streets with any luck, she was now thinking of who might be Alert’s “buyers.” Barnaby was congratulating himself on having diverted her train of thought when Griselda spoke-demonstrating that she, at least, hadn’t been diverted at all.