Nor the fact that every man in the house, whatever his position, was envious of him.
They asked themselves why the Duke had such an attraction for women and wished they were in his shoes.
‘Perhaps one day,’ Shenda pondered, ‘I will fall in love, but I hope it is not with a man like the Duke, because however hard one tried one could not help being jealous.’
She could imagine nothing could be more upsetting or heartbreaking than to love a man, who had a dozen other women fawning on him, flattering him and telling him how irresistible he was.
‘I suppose that wherever the Duke goes, he leaves broken hearts behind him.’
She could remember hearing that his marriage was not happy and she then wondered if it was because his wife was jealous, although there might be less obvious reasons that k
