She was well aware that her fortune had been the main reason why Lord Cardon offered for her. It was considerable enough to attract quite a number of suitors, but until the young handsome Earl of Cardon appeared, her father had refused them all. Sanctimonious, puritanical and in many ways a hypocrite, he was, however, honest enough to admit that Lord Cardon’s reputation was not entirely one that he would have chosen for his son-in-law.
“But you will reform him, my dear, you will reform him,” he said to his daughter and, because she had been brought up to unquestioning obedience, she believed him.
Her tragedy had been that she had not the slightest idea from what she had to reform her husband and in her experience she bored him to distraction even on their Wedding night. On their prolonge
