The Notorious Marriage

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Nicola Cornick

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2018

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There was a startled silence.

‘I beg your pardon?’ Beth said faintly.

Kit gave her a glimmer of a smile. ‘I know you think I can never apologise…’

‘No, I know it…’

‘Whatever the case…’ Kit grimaced. ‘I had no notion of any of this.’ He looked away. ‘I do not understand. How could Eleanor have been reviled when I was the one who deserted her?’

Beth raised her eyes to heaven.

Charlotte tutted. ‘For all your supposed experience of the world, Kit, I sometimes think you the veriest babe in arms! Do you not know that it is always the woman’s reputation that suffers? If you left her there must have been a reason—so goes the reckoning. In this case the favourite explanation is that you found her not to be virtuous…Which is where the rumours started!’

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