"Yes, Ross' cousin Verity," Demelza says with a smile. "Had Jeremy been a girl we were going to name him after her. At first she made me so terribly nervous because I thought, like everyone else, she'd just see me as the scullery maid and not worth a moment of Ross' time or his family's name. She came to visit not long after we were married and it was that uncomfortable at first, but that were really all my fault."
She had been terrified and so she'd not made herself open and available to Verity, who had only ever been trying to do right by her new cousin-in-law.
"I was tryin' so hard to be proper, too, so I'd not shame myself or Ross, but I was getting the rules all wrong and then Verity... well, she told me she didn't care at all where I was from, only that she'd not seen Ross so happy in a long time and oh, she was so kind. Too kind sometimes, she let her brother and her father walk all over her, but she's happy now. She has the life she wanted, the one she deserves."
Demelza had seen to that. She'd destroyed the lives of several other men in the process, but she'd had no way of knowing Francis would take such revenge and give over the names of Ross' investors to George Warleggan.
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She had been terrified and so she'd not made herself open and available to Verity, who had only ever been trying to do right by her new cousin-in-law.
"I was tryin' so hard to be proper, too, so I'd not shame myself or Ross, but I was getting the rules all wrong and then Verity... well, she told me she didn't care at all where I was from, only that she'd not seen Ross so happy in a long time and oh, she was so kind. Too kind sometimes, she let her brother and her father walk all over her, but she's happy now. She has the life she wanted, the one she deserves."
Demelza had seen to that. She'd destroyed the lives of several other men in the process, but she'd had no way of knowing Francis would take such revenge and give over the names of Ross' investors to George Warleggan.