Moss on the Old Stone Steps
At the dinner that was meant to formally acknowledge my place in the family, Lydia wept and asked if I would admit, before every guest in the room, that she was the Harrow family's only daughter.
The roomful of silk and perfume went still.
Seven years ago, the parish birth register and letters left by my grandmother had proved that I was the Harrow family's own daughter, lost years before. Yet since I was brought back to London from the countryside, I had been kept in the most remote wing of the house, never presented for the Season, never once named in a family announcement.
It was only when my great-uncle, who administered my grandmother's estate, came to the door demanding answers that F