Aurora (1980)
“Lady Raiker said, with an angry glint in her blue eyes.
Her sister, sitting with her in the garden, hunched her shoulders and smiled. “She’d only steal it back. She has magnetic fingers that attract gold and jewels.”
It was Lady Raiker’s diamond engagement ring being discussed, a gift from her late husband, and not entailed, as Clare claimed, but her very own, a part of her widow’s paraphernalia, bought by dear Bernard. “Not only gold and jewels.” Lady Raiker took up this favourite theme of the rapacity of the dowager Lady Raiker. “The firescreen that I worked with my own fingers sits beside her grate; the little Wedgwood tea service that I bought with my own allowance sits in her dining room, and a dozen other things she is not entitled to in the least.”
“But then she has given you a title that rightly belongs to her,” Rorie pointed out, with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. “I heard her call you the dowager the other day.”
“That is a new stunt she has come up with,”
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