His grandfather had married a great heiress and his mother had a dowry that exceeded that of any bride in the same year. He had inherited from her several houses and a large acreage of land in the North of England that grew more valuable year by year.
This, combined with his father’s family estate in Buckinghamshire and another in Leicestershire, made Lord Kiniston one of the biggest landlords in the whole of Great Britain.
He was well aware that this counted where Lillian was concerned and he had often suspected that the many women who had desired him as a husband as well as a lover were thinking of his possessions as well as of himself as a man.
He therefore returned to his château, deciding that he must see Lady Charis immediately and inform her of what was to be her future.
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