But Julia realised that from the moment she arrived, she resented his daughter and to a certain extent his sons.
However, because her father seemed to be in better health and happier than when he had left England, Julia forced herself to accept the fact that she had a stepmother, who she knew instinctively disliked and resented her from the moment that they were first introduced.
As she was so thrilled at becoming a Countess and at the same time genuinely in love with the Earl himself, Mildred had thought that she was being swept away into a Heaven on earth.
Her future life would be exactly as she had always planned and schemed it should be.
What she had not anticipated and was only aware of it when she arrived in England was that the Earl’s eldest child was grown up.
Besides that Jul
