The eldest of five brothers and sisters, Christiane Chambreuil, after the death of her father, had to provide for her family; she accepted the job of "mistress of the house" in a Scottish family. She signed the commitment documents without even reading them and, to her amazement, learned some time after her arrival in Uam-Var that she was officially married to Edward Duncan, one of Sir Archibald Duncan's two sons. Christiane protests, storm.... It's too late! It's too late! A marriage by proxy is a marriage anyway. And "mistress of mai-son" is it not an ambiguous expression that implies "wife"?
She had barely recovered from the shock of the shock she experienced at the castle, in the absence of their masters, a woman holding a very young child in her hand. "I bring you little Christian. Old Gertrude is dead and her family doesn't know what to do with your child.
A singular marriage in truth
