Instead it had been a ‘liaison’ such as she had read about in novels and Lady Louise was the villainess, a woman who was unfaithful to her husband!
She was certainly to be condemned, and rightly so, by Nanny and those who listened to her father’s sermons.
Somehow, because the Marquis had seemed so cynical and aloof, she had never thought of him as being the passionate ardent lover she intended to describe in her books as the hero.
She could not forget how sad and pathetic Lady Louise had sounded as she had said,
“I was sure I could keep him, but he has slipped away and soon I shall just be another of those women who belong to his past.”
How could she have said that when she already had a husband? And were the other women who had belonged to the Marquis also married?
Almost as if she
