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Married For His Convenience
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‘Mrs Crawford, please do not upset yourself. Truly, I understand the basic concept and it appears most women survive. It will be no worse and no better with Lord Langford than with any other man, I suppose,’ she said, with determined practicality.
‘You mustn’t enjoy it.’ Her guardian spoke more strongly now as though, with the first awkwardness over, she had warmed to her task. ‘Only women like your mother enjoy it and they lead good men astray. Promise me that you will not enjoy it.’
‘I will do my—um—best not to enjoy it.’ Sarah touched the agitated fingers, stilling their movement.
‘It is a duty, that is all. A duty.’
‘A duty,’ Sarah repeated. ‘And if it gets me a child, it will be worth it.’
A mix of emotions flickered across the older woman’s face. ‘I used to think that. I used to hope, you know. I let him do it when I thought it might result in a child. I wanted a child.’
‘I’m sorry,’ Sarah said, seeing, with sudden sympathy, the barrenness of this woman’s life.
As though exhausted by the conversation, Mrs Crawford allowed her spine to bend. ‘Yes, I hope...I hope you are luckier,’ she said.
‘Thank you. You are... You have been kind.’
‘Well, I’ve done my Christian duty by you. I have never shirked my duty.’
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