Jess again. Mark had called her Jessica. As if she were a full person, not a truncated portion of one.

“Miss Edmonton: I don't even know where to start. It's too horrifying to even sp…”

“I’m here to horrify you,” he said. And then, because he couldn’t bear it any lo…”

“Jenny: But surely Lord Blakely could not abandon his estates for so long.Gareth…”

“No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn…”