2 Results with character "Lady Harcourt"
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Story
A Dreadful Affair
England, 1933. When a kitchen maid tells Lord Harcourt she is carrying his child, he finds the solution to his inconvenience perfectly simple. What follows proves rather less accommodating.-
1.4 K • New
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Chapter
The Arrangement
Sir Edwin Harcourt first learned that Alice Mercer was pregnant on a Tuesday afternoon early in March. She told him in the gun room, which was not a sensible place for the conversation, but she had been waiting outside his study and lost her nerve when she heard Lady Harcourt coming down the stairs. The gun room stood opposite the back passage and was seldom used except in autumn. Alice slipped inside when she saw him and asked him to shut the door. Edwin did so. She was twenty-two and worked…-
1.4 K • Completed
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