"I did no such thing! I ought not to have been out and about that night without Tilly, but I was having a think. I needed to be alone with my thoughts! I didn't know there would be a man on the beach and I certainly didn't invite him to drag me into that cave." And then he was turning on her maid and ordering her to pack Pearl's things. She shook her head vehemently and stepped between him and the maid.

"Tilly will do no such thing!" Pearl crossed her arms over her breasts and said, "Papa knows how I feel and maybe it is time you learned too. I do not wish to be married and I have no wish to live at home either. Between one sister being selfish and spoiled and the other crying constantly about her missing fiance, added to that the antics of Magnus and whatever trouble HE is getting into, I cannot bear it! I am perfectly content working for my place in the world as long as it is away from all the madness."