Phantom Fortune Chapter 11 - If I Were to Do as Iseult Did'

In which Lady Maulevrier, a woman devoted to order and social standing, sternly confronts her granddaughter Lesbia upon learning of Mr. Hammond's suit, viewing his lack of wealth and rank as an insupportable affront to their family. The young Lesbia, torn between love and duty, reluctantly prepares to sever ties with her suitor under her grandmother's unyielding direction, embodying the heavy yoke of societal expectation.