Morrow Creek Runaway. Lisa Plumley

      “Which was...?”

      “Well, not to put too fine a point on it...” Judah scowled at her wainscoting, obviously not wanting to say. “You.”

      “Pshaw. He wouldn’t even join my mutual society.” That still irked her. No man had yet refused a direct invitation.

      “He wouldn’t? He turned down your marriage bureau?” Judah gawked at her, then smacked his hat-holding hand upside his head. “There goes five dollars I’d rather have kept to myself.”

      “Five dollars?”

      “Seth told me Callaway turned down a membership to your marriage bureau. I bet him five dollars he was dead wrong.”

      Rosamond felt touched by Judah’s faith in her and her society’s supposed irresistibility. Also, troubled by Seth’s apparent eavesdropping. She’d have to look into that. In the meantime... “Yes. Mr. Callaway did express a...reluctance to apply.”