Can You Forgive Her? Chapter XXIII - Dinner at Matching Priory

In which Alice Vavasor navigates a drawing-room dinner amongst political luminaries and society ladies, finding herself both amused and somewhat out of place, while Lady Glencora, with a mixture of levity and deeper confession, reveals a personal truth to her cousin in the quiet hours of the night. The interplay of social accomplishment and private struggle is delicately unfolded, casting light on the subtle burdens borne beneath the polished surface of high society.