A Most Faithful Companion (Supposed Scandal #4)

A Most Faithful Companion (Supposed Scandal #4)

Author: Kasey Stockton Listening Length: 7h 39m
Historical Read Online

She cannot afford scandal. He cannot forget her. Nine years ago, Emma Darling chose duty—and lost everything for it. With her parents gone, her standing in ruins, and her dreams packed away, she has survived by becoming an unimposing companion to the kind, if meddlesome, Mrs. Buckley. It is not the life she imagined, ...

Episodes

Listen Now

Now playing: Chapter 1

0:00 / 12:00

Current Episode

Chapter 1

CHAPTER ONE

A lady’s companion ought to be quiet. She is to move unobtrusively at her mistress’s side, stepping forward only when required, and retreating without remark. Under no circumstances should she draw notice to herself, nor presume to outshine the lady whom she attends.

That advice had come to Emma when she first obtained the position, and it had been proven true every day since. In short, a companion’s chief duty was to support and elevate the household she served. Whatever dreams she might harbor were to be folded away neatly, like ribbons kept in a drawer.

They were hers alone. No one need ever know them.