She had then reeled off a list of the committees on which Crisa was expected to sit, a longer list of charities of which she must be a patron and a formidable number of family occasions in which she would be expected to play a leading part.
Crisa sat stunned. Not only at how much was expected of her, but that Matilda had it all worked out in her mind, making it clear that it would be impossible for her to avoid doing any of the things that were asked of her.
‘I have to escape,’ she told herself firmly.
But she knew, although it seemed ridiculous, that she would be obstructed in attempting to do so to the point where they would even use physical force to keep her in New York or in what she thought of as Vanderhault territory.
There was a cousin whose estate was in California and whom it
