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.
Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn__ care who was cut in the process.
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Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn__ care who was cut in the process.
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