Then Kelda told herself severely that she should not be thinking of Antoinette. That was the secret side of Lord Orsett’s life which even as his wife she could not encroach on.
Now she could understand why he had been content to stay for so long in Africa and not return to England.
His relatives had thought that it was just because he was a recluse, but would a man have need of any other companionship when he could have somebody as beautiful as Antoinette, as Kelda made herself face the word, his mistress?”
Because she had lived such a cloistered and sheltered life since her father and mother had died, she had not come into contact with men, nor had there been anybody to talk to her about their ways or what they thought and felt about women.
She knew only the snatches of conversation s
