She would never allow another young woman to face that sort of rejection and abandonment. This was why she had to help Davina Palmer. ? Giles had disappointed and misused her, but Father was the man who'd broken her heart. She'd known society would judge her harshly for her mistake, but her own father. He told me no decent man would ever want me, and that I was to leave his house at once and not bother coming back."Įven six years later, the pain felt as fresh as if it were yesterday. He called me a strumpet, a jezebel, said he didn't blame the young man for refusing. What treatment did I expect, he asked, going about in a harlot-red dress. My father didn't even attempt to force his hand. I hadn't any brothers to defend my honor, and my father. Someone should have brought the knave up to scratch." Apparently there'd been some family understanding that he would wed a distant cousin." Then he refused to marry me-which was devastating. "We were caught together, which was humiliating enough.
She skipped over the details of the encounter.
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