“No, I do: I went and told my father, a vicious, violent brute, that Joss was tupping the new baronet. I just don’t know what I thought would happen. Maybe that Pa would clasp me to his bosom and tell me he loved me after all. He never used my name, you know. The others called me Goldie, but he called me ‘bastard’ if he spoke to me at all, and I still went running to him with that to use against Joss, who never did me wrong in his life.”
