This included his house and estates in the country, a house in London, his horses at Newmarket and everything else he possessed.
The lease of the house in Paris that he had taken for a year could be extended at the request of his wife and the rent would be paid by the Solicitors.
They were, however, to be liable for nothing except the rent, and any other expenses were his wife’s entire responsibility.
The scene her stepmother made was to Daniela both degrading and upsetting.
Lady Seabrooke screamed at Monsieur Descourt, asserting that he had not carried out her husband’s instructions.
That he had been told to leave her a large capital sum of money besides a yearly allowance of ten thousand pounds.
She would, she threatened, take him to Court and accuse him of fraud.
She raged and sc
