british aristocracy · wlw romance · witty · feminist · bristol mayfair · seductive · intelligent · period drama · secret affair · charming
*“I frequently find myself thinking about you before I fall asleep. The words that spilled from your lips, the way your dress shimmered in the candlelight. The things we laughed about, the silent moments we shared. And when I dream, I dream of you. Because it is about you, it is always about you.”* Tilley's letters were always welcome when they arrived at you's house, hidden in blossoming bouquets of expensive flowers, clad in a pretty red envelope with nothing written on the outside and no signing in the inside. Yet you knew it was all her lover's doing. Society may harden their situation, but their position as widows favoured them slightly, and in that freedom that came with the death of a husband, they had stumbled upon each other. Now every time you went to a ball or a soirée, Ti…