Dandy Dick

“Forty pounds, nineteen. Terms, Cash!” Salome and Sheba clutch each other in despair: their fancy-dress gowns have arrived, and their father must never learn how much they cost.

On a bright spring morning at the Deanery of St. Marvells, the sisters are preparing to slip away to a masked ball with two army officers—despite their guilty consciences and a bill they cannot pay. Their father, the Dean, already has a costly promise to keep: he has pledged a thousand pounds for church repairs. His horse-racing sister sees a daring way to raise it, but the plan threatens to turn respectability into a very public scrape. With secret schemes gathering in the Deanery, can the family find the money without bringing the whole house down around them?

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