You Can Ask The Flowers
October in Boston carried a chill that promised winter, but for the first time in years, Iris felt warmth spreading through her chest.
Eleanor Bloom had been the family scandal, the cautionary tale whispered at Christmas dinners about what happened to women who rejected marriage for mysterious pursuits. She'd been brilliant and educated and utterly unmarriageable, had owned property and conducted correspondence with universities and spent her considerable inheritance on projects that respectable people deemed eccentric at best, dangerous at worst.
She'd been everything Iris had never dared to be.
"Miss Bloom," Mrs. Pemberton called as Iris reached the door. "If you leave now, I can't guarant