"The indolent Daniel Crusher married a younger woman, surely for money," "That marriage is doomed, he is too cold to keep a woman happy," "They say the wife had an affair with the brother before catching him." That was the kind of gossip whispered aloud in their social circle, the talk of the moment. And none of it escaped Camila.
Daniel's mother was constantly the subject of uncomfortable silences and hushed voices when she was present. She knew this would happen, she warned her son many times. But he was captivated by that social climber who would make a fool of him, it was only a matter of time. She would not allow Daniel to go through that situation, which would make him look like a puppet of his impulses in the eyes of all the "proper" women.
She had long had one of her friend
