Chapter Three
Anne had been brought up to be cynical about people’s motives. Her father, it seemed, trusted no one. “You will find,” he told both his daughters, “that in this world everyone is out for himself. Once you realise that, you will be on your guard. Make sure you secure your advantage over them.”
Despite her eagerness for s****l knowledge, Anne had an upbringing that had screened her against many things that other girls had common knowledge of. It was perhaps this upbringing that contributed to her sister’s Mary’s unfortunate predicament. Most girls seemed to acquire, through accident or design, a working knowledge of the process of procreation and how to protect themselves again it. Most girls too, as Anne was to discover before she had been long in France, learned at quite an
