Chapter FourteenTrustee
After the unmasking I didn’t see much of Mistress. She and Edward spent a lot of time together. They hadn’t ever been given a real chance and Edward was determined to correct course. Of course, that was all easier said than done. A lot of water had passed under that bridge. They weren’t the same people before all this happened and the Mistress I knew was driven, not allowing anything to get in the way of what was then to me her mysterious goal. But having attained it, she didn’t just go back to the innocent ingénue I now assumed she had been before this had all started. And Edward had been betrayed by not only by his wife, but his best friend too. Wounds like that don’t heal overnight.
Yet they tried. More than once I saw them at a distance about the grounds, walk
