Did you guess that it was Lady Hermione Marlowe and her mother, Lady Walbrook, talking in this exchange?
“…and now that he is inclined to marry—“
“I don’t think the earl has any intention of—“
“Of course he intends to marry. He made his bow at Almack’s.”
Which of course every matron in London knew was code for: I wish to marry your daughter immediately.
If you did–good for you! If not, I tried my hardest to make it a bit of a stumper.
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