All that heaven allows

Anne Weale

Diana’s first experience of love had ended in traumatic unhappiness and disillusionment. Now all
she cared about was that her mother should recover from her serious illness, and that they would
somehow manage to keep up the beautiful house that had been in their family for so many centuries. And it seemed that in Reid Lockwood she had the answer to both her problems: if she agreed to his proposal, her mother would live and she could stay on in the house. Would her total indifference to men help her to put up with a loveless marriage or would it make matters even worse?