“Outright telling Anthony that I disagree with him will do no one any good.” Even when one was on good terms with a man flat out telling him he was wrong rarely helped the situation. “He thinks he’s doing what’s best for you, and for all of us. We simply have to convince him otherwise.” The girl needed a husband but it was not going to be Nigel Berbrook. “If needs be you can have another season next year, there’s nothing to say you can only have one. Heavens know if I hadn’t met your father when I did I probably would have.” At least she’d had the excuse of a war taking well over half the eligible men in England. The nonsense with Napoelon wasn’t quite as bad as it had been when the Colonies decided to rebel.
Violet had no doubt Anthony thought he had their best interests at heart but he was going around everything the wrong way.
“Your father and I ar- were hardly a conventianl match, dearest.” Her own mother had begged her to refuse him and marry someone else- someone older specifically. Someone who’d already inherited his title. It hadn’t been until well after Daphne’s birth Edmund had inherited his. “I very much doubt you want a man tossing a plate of flour at you in an attempt to tell you he fancies you now do you?” Anthony had been nearly eight before she’d told any of them that story. “I would never want anything less for any of you, Daphene, or any of your brothers and sisters.”
The position Anthony had been thrown in at eighteen was unfair to them all. “You won’t marry Lord Berbrook, and your brother will settle down with a girl of his own in due time. Finding you a proper husband is the first problem.”
And then the next Viscountess Bridgerton.
Daphne sighed again and closed her eyes a moment, she needed to think up something to get Anthony and Lord Berbrook off her back.
“Anthony seems set on him, despite his wondering hands and Lips.” She muttered to herself.
“Perhaps, but I am sure Anthony would wish to marry me off to that man, before the thought of a second season would ever come to his mind.”
She felt like she had everyone watching her, calling her the diamond of the season put a lot of pressure on her to be sure she was desirable and married off that season. Why did she have to be so “Flawless.”
Part of her wondered if she should tell Anthony what the man had tried, see if that would make him think differently to the Lord, but then, Anthony was so stubborn, he would probably tell her she NEEDED to marry him then, or not believe her.
It was not an easy situation to be in.
And she knew that Anthony had a lot of weight on his own shoulders also, inheriting the Bridgerton title at a young age, and feeling he was responsible for the whole family. But wouldn’t he rather see his sister happy, then forced into a marriage with a man who was, in her opinion, Vile?
“There has to be something we can do, perhaps without pointing it out to Anthony, that this is not a good match. Don’t we women have ways to… persuade men, and make them think it is their own decision, and not the plotting of women?” She asked. She was sure she had read that in one of her books.
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