Perhaps he had his own reasons for not liking me.

His son tried to obey him, but I am proud to say that the love Miles had for me was far stronger than fear of his father.

Still, for pecuniary reasons he did not care to offend him, so we were married privately the second year of my stay at Crown Anstey." She turned to Lady Thesiger with a mocking smile.
"I know perfectly well," she said, "why your ladyship has never liked me.

You met me walking one evening with Miles Trevelyan in the Anstey woods; you saw him kiss me.

You know, now, that he was my husband and had a right to kiss me if he chose." Lady Thesiger bowed very stiffly.
"Two years after our marriage," Coralie continued, "my little son, called Rupert, after the Crusader Trevelyan, was born.