Cousin Kate

Kate Malvern, Rescued From Penury By Her Aunt Minerva, Hardly Knows What To Expect At Staplewood - The Grand Household Is So Very Different From A Life Spent Following The Drum In The Peninsular! But Surely, Other Households Are More Homelike? Kate'S Uncle Lives In One Wing, Handsome, Moody Cousin Torquil In Another; Thought The Guests Are Few, Even Family Dinners Are Formal. And, When Kate Begins To Suspect The Shocking Reason For Minerva'S Generousity, She Has No-One To Confide In But Cousin Philip - Who Appears To Have Taken Her In Instant Dislike...