As it happened, she had been married when she was very young to a man of no account and he had swept her off her feet when she was just seventeen.
She had lived with him for two years and then her beauty had enticed her to Paris and straight onto the stage at the Folies Bergères.
And from that moment she had started to climb the stairway to success.
She never gave a thought to the husband she had left behind. He vanished from her life so completely that she had almost forgotten his existence.
She had, however, to his surprise, told Christopher the story of her life, which she seldom did to any of her other lovers and he had found her tale exceptionally interesting.
He knew now he had only to tell his father the truth and he would then realise that he was making a huge fuss over nothin
