Chapter TwoLottie was buried with a pomp and style that would have delighted her.
Clova found that the Bank was only too pleased to advance her any amount she required until the money from South Africa arrived and Monsieur Beauvais himself undertook to look after her affairs.
When the funeral was over, Clova realised sadly that the only other mourners had been a representative from the Bank and the concierge’s wife, who had wept copiously through the Service.
It seemed horrifying that Lottie, who had been such a success in Paris when she was with Lionel Arkwright and for many years after he had left her, should now have had no one else to mourn her.
As they had gradually become poorer and poorer and moved to lower and cheaper accommodation, Lottie had been too proud to contact her old
