Epilogue #4

The Mayfair Chronicle

April 1820

I'm sure there are quite a few gentlemen who will be aggrieved to learn that Lady Holbrook (formerly the widowed Baroness Mansfield, sister to the powerful Duke of Clarington) has given birth to twins.

The accomplished and beautiful viscountess has seen fit to carry both a boy, providing her husband with an heir, and a girl. (There is nothing more tragic than a second son who missed being an heir by a matter of minutes…)

Our felicitations go out to Viscount Holbrook and Lady Holbrook.

And to all those men who engaged in the vile bet to make the woman their mistress, this author has it on good authority that the viscountess's brother has discovered their identities…

But I know many of you are here for more salacious news.

This author has recently heard a particularly tasty rumor about a certain lord who has become legendary…