Winter Dreams
“Fox gestured soothingly at Daniel. “Calm down, my dear fellow, for I quite understand your wrath. Well, I suppose I do, for fame has it that she is a most amazingly beautiful woman, in whose bed most men would like to lie.”“I am not most men, and what real feelings I had for her ended in Naples in 1798,” Daniel replied. “Besides, I am no longer a free man, nor do I wish to be.”Fox leaned his great head back and exhaled slowly. “It’s Mrs. Callard, as I understand?”“I have asked her to marry me, and she has accepted.”“I’m delighted for you, dear fellow. Er . . . how is she? I heard of the regrettable incident at Barker’s Panorama.”“An incident that would not have happened had our men been alert,” Daniel pointed out.The Foreign Secretary smiled a little. “Ah, but such things on British soil are Home Department matters, not Foreign Office. The only reason I am dealing with you concerning Madame Barnardi is because it is a continuation of something that commenced in Lisbon.
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