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When Alexandra Jamieson is called in to the London offices of Jonas Manningham to discuss the behaviour of her half brother Stephen Canford she learns nothing of what is supposed to have happened from the dismissive Jonas. Alexandra, devoted to Stephen, her only living relative, is not at all pleased. When she realises that Jonas has mistakenly assumed that she shares her cousin’s family name, Canford, she does nothing to correct him.
Stephen, a young scientist, is taking up a postgraduate position in California. He confesses to Alexandra his responsibility for the loss of valuable silverware from Jonas’s property, the beautiful Comptonhill House, but assures her that he is able take care of everything. When the true value of the silver emerges Alexandra tells Stephen, now in California, that she will help. However Jonas wants complete reimbursement and tells Alexandra (whose name he still assumes to be Canford) that he will waive the debt if she will live with him; despite her unspoken and defensive misgivings she agrees to do so for a period of six months and succeeds with a certain amount of luck in maintaining her deception. In the end, attracted to Jonas and sensing no real commitment on his part, she abruptly leaves.
Discovering she is pregnant Alexandra lets half her small house to a tenant, Graham, and finds a post with the Morgan Collection. More than a year has gone by when Jonas sees her at Heathrow Airport; he traces her to her house, furious not only at her having left him and at her having misled him but also at not having been told about the birth of Logan, his small son.
When the baby is taken into hospital with an acute fever Jonas insists that
he should recuperate at Comptonhill House, where Alexandra, herself ill, succumbs to a more severe variation of Logan’s flu. Jonas proposes marriage and agrees to an arm’s length engagement; it is only after the wedding ceremony that Alexandra learns of the restrictions on her freedom that Jonas has put in place . . .
Stephen, a young scientist, is taking up a postgraduate position in California. He confesses to Alexandra his responsibility for the loss of valuable silverware from Jonas’s property, the beautiful Comptonhill House, but assures her that he is able take care of everything. When the true value of the silver emerges Alexandra tells Stephen, now in California, that she will help. However Jonas wants complete reimbursement and tells Alexandra (whose name he still assumes to be Canford) that he will waive the debt if she will live with him; despite her unspoken and defensive misgivings she agrees to do so for a period of six months and succeeds with a certain amount of luck in maintaining her deception. In the end, attracted to Jonas and sensing no real commitment on his part, she abruptly leaves.
Discovering she is pregnant Alexandra lets half her small house to a tenant, Graham, and finds a post with the Morgan Collection. More than a year has gone by when Jonas sees her at Heathrow Airport; he traces her to her house, furious not only at her having left him and at her having misled him but also at not having been told about the birth of Logan, his small son.
When the baby is taken into hospital with an acute fever Jonas insists that
he should recuperate at Comptonhill House, where Alexandra, herself ill, succumbs to a more severe variation of Logan’s flu. Jonas proposes marriage and agrees to an arm’s length engagement; it is only after the wedding ceremony that Alexandra learns of the restrictions on her freedom that Jonas has put in place . . .
