weeks.”
“You planned this for two weeks?”
“Not anxiously. Strategically.”
Of course she had.
She said,
“I asked myself what I actually needed to learn before my daughter married into this family.”
She counted quietly.
“I needed to know whether James truly sees you.”
“I needed to know whether Robert judges people by usefulness and ability or by presentation.”
“And I needed to know what kind of woman Catherine becomes when she thinks she is socially above someone.”
My mouth fell open slightly.
“You wore this dress to test them?”
