Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School, #2)

by Gail Carriger

Agatha found money terribly embarrassing, as she had so very much of it.

She swallowed with the look of a cat forced to eat a carrot.

She’d lost several of her scarves and much of her accent.

the general pallor of an invalid or an accounting clerk.

No wonder Mademoiselle Geraldine’s has such success training the female aristocracy to be intelligencers. It’s most of our life already.