My Dear Readers,

Though the wintry days of Christmastide are long past, it’s with good tidings of great joy I bring you the latest scandalbroth scattering throughout the clubs, homes, streets, and parks around London like flakes of falling snow. It’s time to stir your imaginations and make you pant for springtime and the approaching Season. I have it on the most authoritative source available that the Duke of Rathburne, the only bachelor left of the Rakes of St. James, is now guardian to a young lady set to make her debut this spring. Perhaps he thought he didn’t have to worry about revenge against him because he had no sister. Now he has a ward. I am fortunate enough to know her name and will share it: Miss Marlena Fast. So not only will we have the Duke of Griffin’s unmarried sister, Lady Vera, attending her third Season, we now have the ward of the Duke of Rathburne. We will be watching and listening to be the first to know if either young lady settles on a husband this year. We will also be keeping our concentration steady on the rumor that was first repeated here two years ago to see if there will be revenge against the rakes heaped upon Lady Vera or Miss Fast—innocent though they are—for the dukes’ past deeds.

MISS HONORA TRUTH’S WEEKLY SCANDAL SHEET