Charles’s wife, Susan, hated Phillip and never wanted him admitted. The servants had specific instructions to let him in over her objection, and they answered to Charles—not Susan—so Phillip’s visits were a never-ending source of discord.Phillip was Charles’s oldest and very illegitimate child, so he was the consummate reminder to Susan that her husband was a roué and scoundrel. She loathed Phillip for all he represented as to the state of her awful and pointless marriage to Charles. From the very first day, it had unfolded like a bad carriage accident.Charles was nearing fifty and had been wed to Susan for three decades. But she’d never bore him any children, and she was beyond the age now where she ever could. To her shame, her errant, salacious husband had bastards around every corner.She was bitter and aggrieved, and she and Charles rarely spoke, never socialized, and made concerted attempts never to stay in the same residence at the same time.“I know he’s here, Countess,”Phillip said.
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