the-knights-who-say-book:

after seeing this post i was immediately filled with the need to read a book where one regency lady thinks this other lady never talks to her because she’s stuck up and rude about the first lady being less wealthy so she’s always showing off her fantastic gowns and hats to piss the snotty lady off except the other lady is actually a painfully shy lesbian who can’t get a word out around her crush and just swoons every time first lady drives slowly by in her carriage to show off and wonders if she’s flirting and the entire book is second girl trying to impress her back while first girl thinks they’re in an escalating silent social war while second girl thinks they’re maybe flirting probably? this seems like flirting?? until the climax at some fancy ball when first girl says something that’s meant to be devastatingly yet politely disdainful but comes out outrageously gay and second girl is like “THIS IS IT SHE LIKES ME” and kisses her and first girl is like

“oh no. wait. yes. what?”

and the adorable ending is them trying to figure out what happened after first girl is like “but you hate me!” and second girl is like “if you thought i hated you why did you flirt with me for a solid year??” and first girl is like “i was clearly destroying you?” and second girl is like “oh. babe. not the way you thought you were”

and then they get married the end.