A Fête Worse Than Death (1998)
“He felt sick. All he had said to Ashley twisted inside. He’d been so clever, so ridiculously, smugly clever. ‘Marguerite Vayle?’ he repeated in a stunned voice. He raised his head and almost shouted. ‘Marguerite Vayle is Tyburn’s daughter?’ Sir Philip stepped forward anxiously ‘Hush, Jack, not so loud.’ One way of escape – the only way of escape – from the logic of his reasoning offered itself. ‘Does she know?’ ‘Of course she doesn’t know!’ Haldean shut his eyes in relief. It wasn’t her. Thank ...God, it wasn’t her. If she didn’t know she was Tyburn’s child, all his arguments fell to the ground. He’d been wrong hut he didn’t care. It wasn’t her. His uncle was still talking and he forced himself to listen.
‘I . . . We . . . Your aunt . . . We were going to tell her when she was twenty-one. That’s when this confounded trust comes to an end but until then . . . Well, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to bring up and until now there’s been no reason to say anything.MoreLess
‘I . . . We . . . Your aunt . . . We were going to tell her when she was twenty-one. That’s when this confounded trust comes to an end but until then . . . Well, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to bring up and until now there’s been no reason to say anything.MoreLess
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