In March of 1915, all three of Lord and Lady Chetwynd-Pitt's sons'd been gassed, blown up or machine-gunned in the very same week at the battle of Neuve-Chapelle. All three. Imagine that: On Monday, you've got three sons, by Friday you've got none. Lady Albertina had just, y'know, caved in. Physically, mentally, spiritually, brutally.
In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.
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In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.
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