Louis Trevelyan marries Emily Rowley, daughter of a colonial governor, and they settle happily in London. Then Colonel Osborne, an old friend of her father, begins to call, and Trevelyan’s suspicion hardens into a quarrel neither will yield in. Around them run lighter plots, among them the doings of the formidable Miss Jemima Stanbury of Exeter.
Among Trollope’s darkest novels, a close study of pride and possessiveness inside a Victorian marriage. Download the free EPUB.