Jessica (1980)
“Jessica put the gold-edged card beside the pile of beans on the table and Tamsin looked at her.
“Shall you be going then?”
“I don’t think so.”
Tamsin looked at it, reading slowly. “ ‘Please come, Jessica, for I think it would be the best course, both for Henbury and for you. Francis.’ Well, happen Sir Francis do think you should.”
“I couldn’t.” The recent disaster of her visit to Henbury was too strong and painful.
“Listen, Miss Jess, ‘tis time the folks hereabouts realized you’m not one of them ladies’ entertaining different men each night, and sometimes in the day as well! You made a mistake—and mistake it were, so don’t go pretending it weren’t—and now ‘tis all done with. A start has to be made somewhere and this ball do seem as good a spot as any.”
“I could not endure so embarrassing an evening, Tamsin. Truly, I couldn’t. They would all stare and whisper, and only the most lecherous of the men would offer to partner me. It would all be too much.
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