The Unconventional Governess. Jessica Nelson

She cleared her throat. “Tiredness and fatigue. Perhaps it is a side effect of his cracked ribs. Let us take a short break and then be on our way. I shall ride with Alice and we will leave the earl to rest.”

      “Will he be all right?” That from Jacks.

      Henrietta nodded with force. Yes, he would be fine as long as no one in English society ever found out about his epilepsy.

      She did not know much of the condition, but one thing she did know: those with it were often ostracized from polite society and confined to an asylum for the remainder of their lives.

      How he had managed to escape detection, she could not fathom, but she would not be the one to expose his secret.