Postscript
Lizzie and Tyrell were married three weeks later in the great hall of Adare. The ceremony was a small and private one, attended only by family. It was a great, joyous and tearful celebration.
That day Aunt Eleanor revealed the contents of her will. To Georgie and Anna she left two modest pensions, and to Rory, the house in Belgrave Square. The rest of her vast fortune went to Lizzie, who had become, in the stroke of a pen, one of the greatest heiresses in the realm.
Georgie and Rory were married the following summer at Raven Hall. Their wedding was not exactly the small affair they had envisioned, with almost two hundred guests. Lizzie was her sister’s maid of honor, Tyrell the best man.
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