He had not thought much about his family for years simply because he had hated his grandfather, the Marquis, and had more interesting issues to think about in India. But now when he looked back, he remembered that his grandfather had been the eighth Marquis of Inglestone. The Marquisate went back to the twelfth century. His grandfather had married a daughter of the Duke of Dunstead and she had given herself as many airs as her husband did and they behaved, David thought, as if they were Royalty and expected everyone to bow to them. His grandfather was little more than forty when his wife died, having borne him two sons and not surprisingly, he soon married again. Lady Elizabeth Falcon was very different from his first wife. She enjoyed her life, was very intelligent and an excellent rider. She had been married before but without children and made the Marquis a little more human.
