‘What you want, missy, is a hack!' said the guard. When she shook her head, he clicked his tongue disapprovingly, and expressed a hope that she might at least know where she was a-going to.Ī gleam of amusement lightened the shadows in Miss Malvern's large gray eyes she replied, with a tiny chuckle: ‘Oh, yes! I do know that!' The guard, assailed by demands from several anxious travellers to have their bags and bandboxes restored to them immediately, had little time to spare, but Miss Malvern's flower-like countenance, and her air of youthful innocence, impelled him to ask her if anyone was meeting her. Until the guard dumped at her feet the small corded trunk which contained her worldly possessions and advised her to look sharp to it, no one paid the least attention to her, except an ostler leading out two horses, and adjuring her to get out of the way, and one of the inevitable street-vendors who haunted busy inn-yards, begging her to buy some gingerbread. All was bustle and confusion and for a few minutes Miss Malvern, climbing down from the coach, was bewildered by it, and stood looking round her rather helplessly. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īt no time during the twenty-four hours was the Bull and Mouth Inn a place of quiet or repose, and by ten o'clock in the morning, when the stage-coach from Wisbech, turning top-heavily out of Aldersgate, lumbered into its yard, it seemed, to one weary and downcast passenger at least, to be crowded with vehicles of every description, from a yellow-bodied post-chaise to a wagon, with its shafts cocked up and the various packages and bundles it carried strewn over the yard. "A superior Georgette Heyer work a bit darker and more serious than most of her other books, but as always there is the fast wit and a happy ending." "Cousin Kate remains a classic Heyer study of character and Regency attitudes, and boasts a wonderfully warm and generous heroine who it is impossible to dislike and one of Heyer's most pleasant and agreeable heroes." Sympathetic though he may appear, will he tell her what she most needs to know. But the household is strange and strained?Kate's uncle lives in his own private wing, and her handsome, moody cousin Torquil lives in another.Īs bizarre events unfold and Kate begins to question the reasons for her aunt's unexpected generosity, she has no one to confide in but her cousin Philip. Kate Malvern is rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, who brings her to stay at Staplewood.
And a very expert job she does of it, too, complete with a remote and forbidding country house, screams in the night, dark hints of something best left unmentioned? nicely leavened with wit, romance, and wonderful period slang." - Publishers Weekly
"Miss Heyer serves up a very different sort of tale in the same period setting, nothing less than a full-fledged Gothic. Enjoy one of only two Heyer Gothic Regency romances.
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