"Do you think so?" Patience asked. "I agree they're scandalous but all for the wrong reasons. Women sitting in the House of Lords? I do declare if I was ever given such an awful job I would be quite awful at it. I would change my mind in an instant. One day I would be a social reformer and the next a conservative. I would not know what I thought! And his latest one - that woman leaving her husband! What an awful notion that she thought she should take the children with her when she'd brought shame on her family."
Despite her dislike of the content Patience did still read Miles Rochester's books. After all, they were fashionable.
She smiled widely, and tossed her hair. "A Marquess? I should say. But only if he has a brother for you. For then we shall be sisters!"