Katherine Wetherbee Mandeville, Dowager Duchess of Pangbourne, met William Barrett, Earl of Wylde, when her best friend, Serena
Beaufort, asked her to dance with her widowed brother-in-law. Katherine was
genuinely delighted with his fresh, honest, and forthright conversation. He was
English, but had lived in America since he was a young man. When he smiled, he
possessed the most charming dimples. His speech wasn’t littered with the usual
English hesitations and stammers, and his British accent was oddly tinged with
American. He seemed too good to be genuine; maybe he was only an illusion, but
he conveyed a mature, comfortable feeling. At Amazon in eBook, KU & Ppbk
