Chapter 137: Groundless Slander

So Juliet Zuniga chose to offer her blessing to Jordan Sowden and Gwendolyn Tetlow, then slipped away without a word. There had been too many people around. Jordan did not notice her at all, and naturally had no idea she had come. He had produced the marriage agreement with Gwendolyn only as a stopgap, to get the crowd to disperse so they wouldn't disrupt the talk between Sylvia Tetlow and Gwendolyn. As for that engagement, he did not relish it. Beyond the fact that Gwendolyn's parents rubbed...