“Lady Demeroven?” Lord Ashmond prompts. “I know your late husband agreed. Stand-up man, he was.” And that, somehow, seems to be the last straw. “My husband was a lout who spouted the same abhorrent drivel and used to backhand me for every slight. If I could have taken him to court and gotten half of his estate, I would have, and I would tell Beth to do the same should your son ever, ever,” Mother says, turning a hard look on Lord Montson, “raise a hand to her. And I would support her use of the new law immediately.”
