Phantom Fortune Chapter 34 - Our Love was New, and Then But in the Spring'

In which the languid closing of the Henley Regatta gives way to contemplations of wealth, rank, and social ambition amid the fragrant gardens of an ancestral home. Lesbia, poised between youthful dreams and worldly wisdom, weighs her future with a suitor whose affection is tempered by impatience, while the spectre of society and its peculiar codes hovers quietly near.