The Granville Legacy by Una-Mary Parker

Author:Una-Mary Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The next morning Juliet phoned her mother to ask if she’d heard from Rosie.

Liza, fussing around their modern flat trying to make it look aristocratic by decking it out with crimson brocade furnishings, sounded vexed. She was having a bad morning. The rooms were too square and boxy with low ceilings and metal window frames to allow her to achieve the grand look she wanted.

‘Yes, I’ve heard from her,’ she snapped. ‘It’s a great pity, but at least she hasn’t gone off with a French waiter or something. This young man is a baron…’

‘Nearly all the upper-class young men on the Continent are Barons or Counts… that is if they aren’t Princes!’ Juliet retorted, dumbfounded by the extraordinary set of values her mother clung to, as if it was still the beginning of the century instead of halfway through it. ‘Who the hell cares what he is!’ she exploded. ‘Rosie has ditched her husband and her children for some foreign charmer who she’s known for five minutes, and I think it’s disgraceful.’

‘Well, there’s nothing we can do about it,’ Liza fretted, wondering if the walls of the drawing room would look better with the red brocade if they were painted silvery grey. ‘Rosie’s a grown woman and I’m sure she’ll want Sophia and Jonathan to join her as soon as she’s settled.’

‘But how is she going to live? She’s only got her dress allowance and she can’t even get hold of that with the present restrictions.’

‘Her young man is probably rich.’

‘Oh, really, Mother. The whole thing is madness and don’t expect me to pick up the pieces when it all falls apart, as it most surely will.’

‘Juliet, you’re so cynical,’ Liza said plaintively.

‘I’m just sorry for Salton.’

‘Yes, well.’ Her mother sighed. ‘These things happen.’

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