Bedlam: The Further Secret Adventures Of Charlotte Brontë (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Despite the fact that I had saved the lives of her children, she bore me a grudge because she could not forget that they’d been kidnapped while in my care. Although she knew that the disastrous events of 1848 would have transpired with or without me, in her mind I was inextricably associated with them. No matter that she had pronounced herself forever in my debt; she couldn’t forgive me. Perhaps she couldn’t forgive me because she was in my debt. Her Majesty did not like being in anyone’s debt, let alone that of someone she considered a common little upstart. She instructed the soldiers to take me to the back terrace, then turned and went back inside the mansion. The terrace was enclosed by stone balustrades and decorated with statuary and potted plants. In the daytime it would command a fine view of the ocean. White ironwork chairs surrounded a table on which a lamp burned. Sitting alone, I gazed up at the stars that began to appear in the sky, then down upon the garden, whose flowers exhaled sweet perfume.
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