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• "Aunt Sophie, how do you know this stuff?" he asked.
• Sophie smiled back.
• "David dear, women do talk you know. Louisa and I were close, and she needed someone to know, so she told me. When your grandfather died, she was devastated, so much so that she died a few weeks later. The doctors said it was a heart attack, but I know better: she died of a broken heart, and that's the truth of it, no matter what the medical men say. She was a wonderful lady and terribly, hopelessly fond of your father; she always felt she should have been his mother, if fate had been more kind, or society more forgiving. She felt her whole life that she'd been robbed of her true happiness, and spent her life pining for the man she loved but could never have. Of course, that horrible Grant man knew and he never missed an opportunity to throw it back in her face; I suppose that's why he consoled himself with an endless succession of actresses and housemaids, in between drinking like a bloody fish!"