This man sitting beside her, talking about himself and his possessions, was her husband! He had paid for her more money than she had ever dreamt of, but for her that was no compensation for being his.
She had known how much it had hurt her father to see her go, but the contracts that Mr. Vanderhault had signed after the Ceremony in the presence of his Solicitor, who had come down from London and was one of the guests at the Wedding, were lying on her father’s desk.
If her life had changed from the moment the ring had gone onto her finger, so had her father’s.
He was now a rich man and she was quite certain that, when she had gone, he would not stay at The Manor, but would rush back to London in the hope that the Gaiety Girls, the nightclubs and the restaurants that Nanny talked about so
