Epilogue
Exactly nine months later, with the local midwife, her mother, and Lady Adina in attendance, Isabel delivered her husband the first of, hopefully, his many sons. Her husband wasn't present for the delivery of his heir, as he was in Birmingham, negotiating the purchase of another mill. The second in the empire he, Nathaniel, and Eamon were building.
Penny and Charlotte, both, were at their respective homes having already delivered to their husbands, strapping young male heirs to carry on their bloodlines, all three male infants born just weeks apart.
Early in the morning of her second day as a mother, Isabel wrote notes to her two best friends in the world, telling them of the beauty of her firstborn son. And no sooner had she put the quill away and folded the parchment, than sa
