She was quite certain if it became known that she was related to John Hart, the old story of the disappearing bride would be raked up.
And it would have been most difficult for her not to admit that she was her mother’s daughter.
She had even wondered if her grandfather was still hoping that her mother would return to him and the family.
But, as her mother had been so blissfully happy, Calina was sure that it had never occurred to her for one moment to leave her husband and her child.
Or to pretend that she was in any way the least bit sorry for having run away from the man she did not want to marry at such an unfortunate moment.
‘I wonder what the Marquis would say if I told him who I was?’ she asked herself.
Then she laughed silently at the very thought that he would be embarrassed
