Master of Comus

the long version

For the sake of her family’s fortunes Leonie had agree to an arranged marriage with her cousin Paul. Paul was handsome, rich, and charming, and Leonie had always hero-worshipped him – so on the face of it she wasn’t making such a sacrifice, and there seemed a reasonable chance that in time the two of them might make a success of the marriage. But Paul had never been a one-woman man, to put it mildly, and nothing about his behaviour suggested that marriage had changed him. Particularly where the beautiful but malicious Diane Irvine was concerned…