Ada had no social structure in which to exist as Ada. For some reason, maybe the Byronic blood, she didn’t care. She was lucky to have a husband who bored her, but who let her do as she liked – or who didn’t notice what she was up to most of the time, and that included many affairs, and a great deal of money lost on horse racing. She was freakishly lucky to have been given a maths tutor, and blessed to find that she had an intuitive understanding of numbers, as well as the necessary application for long hours of solitary study, at a time when women of her class and kind were encouraged to be
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