Max du Veuzit 
A singular marriage 

The eldest of five brothers and sisters, Christiane Chambreuil, after the death of her father, had to provide for her family; she accepted the job of ‘mistress of the house’ in a Scottish family. She signed the commitment documents without even reading them and, to her amazement, learned some time after her arrival in Uam-Var that she was officially married to Edward Duncan, one of Sir Archibald Duncan’s two sons. Christiane protests, storm…. It’s too late! It’s too late! A marriage by proxy is a marriage anyway. And ‘mistress of mai-son’ is it not an ambiguous expression that implies ‘wife’?

She had barely recovered from the shock of the shock she experienced at the castle, in the absence of their masters, a woman holding a very young child in her hand. ‘I bring you little Christian. Old Gertrude is dead and her family doesn’t know what to do with your child.

A singular marriage in truth

Over de auteur

Max du Veuzit est le nom de plume de Alphonsine Zéphirine Vavasseur, née au Petit-Quevilly le 29 octobre 1876 et morte à Bois-Colombes le 15 avril 1952. Elle est un écrivain de langue française, auteur de nombreux romans sentimentaux à grand succès.