When Arthur Martindale marries Violet, the timid sixteen-year-old sister of a country attorney, his grand family at Martindale is appalled. Violet must make her way among a disapproving mother-in-law and the formidable Theodora, her husband’s sister, and a heedless young husband, discovering that gentleness can carry more strength than pride.
A favourite Victorian domestic novel by the author of The Heir of Redclyffe. Download the free EPUB.