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“No, but to be fair ere never likely to become bosom pals”

“Why do you say that, Mrs Clifton?”

“We didn’t share the sa, and fishing set Frankly, we coinia mixed in a circle I would never normally have come across”

“Were you jealous of her?”

“Only of her good looks,” said Erin This was rewarded with several smiles from the jury box

“But sadly, your brother and Lady Virginia’s e ended in divorce”

“Which didn’t come as a surprise, at least not to anyone on our side of the family,” said Emma

“And as that, Mrs Clifton?”

“I never felt she was the right person for Giles”

“So you and Lady Virginia didn’t part as friends?”

“We’d never been friends in the first place, Mr Trelford”

“Nevertheless, she came back into your life a few years later?”

“Yes, but that wasn’t by ton’s shares, which came as a surprise to me, as she’d never previously shown any interest in the coht until the company secretary informed me that she owned seven and a half percent of the stock”

“Why was seven and a half percent so important?”

“Because it entitled her to a place on the board”