“She will return on the seventeenth of this month. That is her birthday. She’s set to claim her inheritance that day, which is being kept by the crown due to the death of her late father’s executor.” “Let me guess. You want to secure my services in officiating your marriage the minute this Miss Montgomery of yours returns.”
Doesn’t it sound strange that? Doesn’t it sound like he’s trying to force a marriage on someone when they arrive to claim an inheritance? Not like a willing participant…
