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Leaving his earlier, underlying feelings still standing, still turbulent, powerful and remarkably strong, a roiling, surging clashing sea swirling beneath his tightly reined temper. Not just coloring his temper but giving it an edge quite unlike any he’d experienced before. A clink of crystal reached him, then Gasthorpe appeared by his elbow, proffering a glass half-filled with amber liquid. He took it and nodded a dismissal. Gasthorpe bowed and withdrew. He sipped, watched Phoebe cradle her cup between her hands and gaze at the fire. What he felt—for her, about her— wasn’t familiar. He wasn’t even sure why he felt as he did. 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Drawing in a slow breath, she shifted, easing her tense back. “What do you wish to know?” He heard the question for the capitulation it was but gave no sign of gloating. “How do you know which females need rescuing?” She drained her teacup, set it down, then told him of the network that operated throughout Mayfair and the major country houses, the housekeepers and butlers who knew each other, the interconnecting mesh of family and relatives who worked here or there, in this lord’s employ or that lady’s. “It’s not hard to hear of the problem households if you’re listening in the right quarters. Emmeline worked in a number of establishments, and she has seven sisters and two brothers, similiarly employed. Through them and her, word gets passed back to the agency.” “And then?” “And then …” She drew breath and went on, “If we need to rescue someone from an actual residence, as is usually the case with a governess, I visit with Edith or one of my other aunts. It’s not that difficult to arrange. I don’t make direct contact with the young woman involved—that’s always done through the housekeeper or whoever in the household alerted us in the first place.” “You go there to reconnoiter, to study the house and the approaches to work out how to mount your rescue?” She could read nothing—neither was there disgust nor condemnation—in his tone. “Yes.” She rose and started pacing before the hearth, rubbing the fingers of one hand, remembering various res tiffany london cues they’d staged. “If, on the other hand, the girl’s a lady’s maid, dresser, or companion, and therefore likely to travel, it’s often easier to rescue them from other houses.” “Such as the maid you rescued from Cranbrook Manor— Lady Moffat’s lady’s maid. 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