 Brilliant's Audio presents the unabridged recording of The Secret Mistress by Mary Balog, performed by Anne Flosnick. CHAPTER ONE Lady Angeline Dudley was standing at the window of the taproom in the rosin-crown inn east of Reading. Quite scandalous that she was alone there. But what was she to do? The window of her own room looked out only upon a rural landscape. It was picture-asking up, but it was not the view she wanted. Only the taproom window offered that, looking out as it did upon the inn-yard into which any new arrival was bound to ride. Angeline was waiting with barely-curd dim- CHAPTER TWO Sample complete. Ready to continue?