Only after five years of marriage did she begin to realise that some of the men who paid her very fulsome compliments when she danced with them made her heart beat quicker than her husband had been able to do.
When she took her first lover she was terrified, but after several more she no longer felt guilty about it and grew astute at keeping Edward in happy ignorance.
Only when she met the Marquis did she find it difficult to think of anybody else or even to remember that she was, in fact, a married woman.
He filled her whole thoughts every moment of the day and she went to sleep dreaming of him.
It was not only that he was the best-looking and most fascinating man she had ever met but he also showed her an even more glittering glamorous world than she had seen hitherto.
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