“His opinion is hardly the one I am concerned about,” Harriet replied snippily. The best-case scenario was that society would indulge in a little schadenfreude at their expense before carrying on. Camilla would be accepted eventually, because she already was acceptable – mostly – but until then they would simply have to keep their heads down.

And then there was the other possibility: that society would never forget, her fierce guardianship of the family would be for nothing and they would spend more decades living with the residual scandal.

Fuck, she needed a drink.

“Though I can sympathise with it.”