Epitaph for Three Women
“Her hopes rested on him. Jacqueline was a young woman, but she already had had two marriages and was now contemplating a third.Jacqueline was no fool. She often complained to her maid that her husbands had not so much married her as her possessions.‘How fortunate you are, my girl,’ she said, ‘to have no possessions. You will know when you marry it will have to be for yourself.’And now Duke Humphrey. She wanted desperately to marry him. Not that she was in love with Humphrey but he was important enough to have a certain charm. Power in men was something which Jacqueline had been brought up to admire and for her it always had been one of the most attractive attributes a man could have. Now it was a necessity for her to have a powerful husband if she were ever going to regain her rights and cease to be an exile living on sufferance in an alien land. That was the hardest part to endure. She who had once been a considerable heiress now to be relying on the bounty of a foreign court.Marriag...e to Gloucester would change the position.MoreLess
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