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to leave the party. He’d had a long day, spending most of it at the racetrack because he’d had achance to buy one of the horses listed and wanted to see firsthand if the stallion was worth adding to his breeding stock. The stallion had come in third, better than he’d hoped, but not high enough to affect the price he was willing to pay.
    But he’d met most of the guests tonight and had accomplished what he’d come for—to find out if it would be worth his time to start coming to upper-crust parties like this one where he could meet the richer lords in London who might want to buy his horses. Indeed it was. He even had two possible sales lined up. So he was glad that William had joined him at the races today and talked him into coming along tonight, but he didn’t think staying any longer would be useful. And he was annoyed with himself. His eyes kept returning to Little Miss Sunshine. The chit wouldn’t close her mouth long enough to let her admirers say a single word to her! How the deuce did she expect to win one of them?
    “Bloody rotten luck that Blythe had to get the sniffles yesterday and reddened her nose so much she refused to leave her room today,” William complained beside him, gazing in the same direction as Devin. “Lady Amanda doesn’t appear the least bit interested in those young bucks surrounding her. My sister could have had her pick of them.”
    “She’ll meet them soon enough.”
    “Yes, I know, I just never expected that I’d be the one having to make sure she marries well. My mum was so looking forward to this.” William sighed. “I miss them terribly.”
    Devin was uncomfortable with his friend’s grief. “Buck up, old boy. We’ll have her married in no time!”
    Devin hadn’t said we just out of sympathy for his old friend. Devin had already assured William that he’d help any way he could, short of marrying Blythe himself. Even she knew shecould do better than him. The fact was, the Paces, brother and sister, were quite pinched in the pocket these days, the deaths of their parents having left them with a pile of debts and no way to dig their way out of it other than through marriage. Work was out of the question. They were aristocrats, after all, and if not from the upper reaches, their father had been a lord and their uncle was an earl. But the plan was to get Blythe married first, then William could stop worrying about her and concentrate on finding a spouse for himself. Pace financial woes would be fixed nicely and everyone would be happy.
    Devin wished he could map out his own life so easily, but he knew a wife wouldn’t be part of it, at least not one he might meet socializing with the ton . They might accept him for whatever reason, but they wouldn’t let their daughters marry him, not when the truth about him was revealed, and that wasn’t something he could withhold in good conscience from a potential wife or her family. But, in the meantime, he didn’t mind using these people to promote his new farm or to profit from the sideline that had fallen into his lap and was turning out to be surprisingly lucrative.
    No matter how he looked at it, that sideline was funny as hell. Matchmaking, and they paid him for it! Just because he found people so easy to read, particularly young people who talked too much when they were nervous. He’d even met the perfect match for William a couple of weeks ago, felt it in his gut that they’d fall head over heels for each other, and was just waiting until William’s sister was settled to introduce them. But this sideline had caused the invitations to elite parties to roll in, ever since Sir Henry and Elizabeth Malcort had announced their engagement and claimed that Devin had helped them find each other.
    The ton considered him a curiosity, and because of that, they wanted him at their parties. He actually didn’t care why as long as it brought him business for either of his endeavors. But he wished to hell he could keep his eyes off