‘The smaller painting beside it is a formal study of Fritzhugh’s mother and father. She never visited her son’s family in Australia, but as she was a great beauty in her day, she is fondly known to us as the lovely Lady Sarah.’
‘My goodness, she married my great-grandfather,’ Caroline exclaimed. ‘But she was married to the Earl of Fairly,’ Tilly added. ‘Then that is definitely her,’ replied Caroline, ‘and Matilda, I am dying to hear your family history. You see, my grandfather was her third husband. I believe the Earl died sometime after the 1919 flu epidemic. By all accounts, she was considered a great prize. My grandfather was a widower with two sons, and I am the second daughter of Errol, who was the eldest. So you and I are just a blanket or two away from being related?’
That evening
