She would have done so even if her parents hadn’t originally told her to wait patiently on the grass.īut there would be no swimming today. That she might have achieved this goal as much out of spite as natural ability was irrelevant. She’d learned faster than three out of four of her brothers (it wasn’t fair to compare her to the eldest of course he’d catch on more quickly), and to this day she was, in her opinion, the strongest swimmer in the family. Poppy, the sole daughter of the bunch, took umbrage at the notion that she would be the only Bridgerton to die in a shipwreck and said as much to her parents-in precisely those words-just before she marched alongside her four brothers to the water’s edge and hurled herself in. Or perhaps more accurately, they had insisted that all their sons learn to swim. There was a lake near her family’s home, and Poppy’s parents had insisted that all their children learn to swim. For a young woman who had grown up on an island, in Somerset to be precise, Poppy Bridgerton had spent remarkably little time at the coast.
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