THE IMAGINARY MARRIAGE
Henry St. John Cooper
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
A MASTERFUL WOMAN
“Don’t talk to me, miss,” said her ladyship. “I don’t want to hear any nonsense from you!”
The pretty, frightened girl who shared the drawing-room at this moment with Lady Linden of Cornbridge Manor House had not dared to open her lips. But that was her ladyship’s way, and “Don’t talk to me!” was a stock expression of hers. Few people were permitted to talk in her ladyship’s presence. In Cornbridge they spoke of her with bated breath as a “rare masterful woman,” and they had good cause.
Masterful and domineering was Lady Linden of Cornbridge, yet she was kind-hearted, though she tried to disguise the fact.