CHAPTER TWOIn the first hideous shock of discovering that the man she loved had turned away from her and loved another, Elvina had frozen. Then her only thought had been to escape before they discovered her.
But now she had gone well away from them, all the bitterness and anguish of her situation welled up and a violent sob shook her.
She wanted to cry aloud to Heaven that she had been betrayed. Margaret had come into her house and stolen the man she loved in a devious and underhand way.
But she did not cry to Heaven. She leaned against the wall while tears poured down her face. She loved Andrew and now she had learned in the most brutal way that he did not love her.
Worse, he was a deceitful schemer, coldly and cynically planning to swear his love to her so that he could get his hands
