A Time Like No Other (2007)
“Her fertile womb which had quickened so effortlessly to Chris had done so again with Roly! What should have come a week ago had failed to appear and she, who was as regular as clockwork, knew the full horror of her predicament. Predicament! What a pathetic word to use to describe the terrible situation she was in. It was as though she were bemoaning the weather on a day when she had planned a garden party; that she had a head cold or was suffering any number of inconsequential occurrences come ...to plague her. She was pregnant. She was a woman whose husband had been dead for almost a year and she was to have a child. Roly Sinclair’s child! The worst thing that could happen to a woman was happening to her and her mind was stunned with the shock of it, the dread of it and she had no one in whom she could confide. No one to say there was no need to worry as it would all come right, for it wouldn’t come right. Her life would be in ruins, worse than it was now, for the tenants on her farms, who were, most of them at least, friendly and welcoming, would turn against her because even in their class it was a disgrace, for the culprit and for her family, to bear a child out of wedlock.MoreLess
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