In the past few days he’d proven himself sensitive, caring, and principled. Even, she thought with a glimmer of a smile as she recalled the light in Penelope Featherington’s eyes when he’d saved her from the verbal talons of Cressida Cowper, heroic. He was devoted to family. He had used his social position and power not to lord over others but simply to spare another person insult. He had helped her through one of her phobic attacks with a grace and sensitivity that, now that she could view it with a clear head, stunned her. He might have been a rake and a rogue—he might still be a rake and a
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