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• "I used to sit here with your Great-Aunt Louisa, Richard's dear mother, and we'd talk about the family, about David, your father. This is where Louisa told me about her brother and her, about her own beloved David, your grandfather, about your uncle Richard, and poor Hugo, how devastated she was when he died so tragically young, just a young boy. She once told me she used to pray that somehow the universe would change, that things would turn around so she could have the one thing she wanted, her David to be her husband, and to have been your father's mother. Her husband drank himself to death with the money your grandfather gave him to marry Louisa and save her from scandal, but that man, he was rotten to the core; he never let poor Louisa forget he wasn't Richard's father, that he was well aware who Richard's real father was. He made her life a misery, always blackmailing her to keep her secret."
• She stopped to dab at her eyes, Lori following her.
• "Your grandfather paid up without a murmur, of course, he loved his sister far too much to let her secret become known. At least you managed to have what Louisa and her brother could never have had, David, so be grateful for each other, children, give thanks every day, because you'll never know how bad it could have been."