Elizabeth Mansfield
“As she sat over her embroidery frame in her lonely sitting room, she found herself dripping silent tears on the stitches. What had gone wrong? she asked herself miserably. She’d hoped to make her husband happy by her subterfuge, but if the letters had been, as she’d hoped, a balm to his wounded soul, she saw no sign of it. The two of them were barely speaking. Yet her portmanteau and two bandboxes stood packed and ready in the Great Hall for removal the next morning to the carriage that was to ...take her to London. Robert had instructed Loesby to arrange for the coachman to be at the door at seven. She was leaving. And without him.
Cassie had no real wish to go, for the terrible coldness that had sprung up between them pained her more than anything else that had happened to her. She had no understanding of the cause, but she feared that her absence would only make matters worse. But her dishonest forgery scheme, now launched, had to be continued. She saw no way around it. And to continue it, she had to go to London to see Eunice.MoreLess
Cassie had no real wish to go, for the terrible coldness that had sprung up between them pained her more than anything else that had happened to her. She had no understanding of the cause, but she feared that her absence would only make matters worse. But her dishonest forgery scheme, now launched, had to be continued. She saw no way around it. And to continue it, she had to go to London to see Eunice.MoreLess
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