Alice laughed. “Of course. If we manage to get on Quinn’s good side, it’ll be just the same as getting on Julian’s good side.”

As the eldest daughter-in-law of the Stones, Alice had no need to curry favor with anyone, but she still wanted to forge ties with Julian’s wife. There would always be a need for the Buchams at some point.

For example, they had only managed to get the Buchams to help now through Zachary’s connection. The rich madams of the upper class mostly had ulterior motives for ke