SOLVED. Two-part book abou poor lady and a count [s]

[Irm]

I'm looking for a book which I read tweleve or thirteen years ago. First, I thougt it was "The Blue Castle" by L.M. Montgomery, because of the atmoshpere but it wasn't. I dont't think it's one of the modern historical romance. I don't remember a lot about that book but still maybe some recognise it.

The book had two parts. In the first one the heroine was so poor that she couldn't afford buying new curtains despite that one in her bedroom were two inchs short. Finaly she become a wife of a count or a baron. There was a scene when they meet in the middle of the desert filed when she was in her way back from the small town where she had bought fishes (the spent time with some other people in some's mansion in the provinces). It's quite possible that the count (baron) proposed to her there.

In the second part they where married and the count (baron) went away. Maybe to India. She was alone in their mansion with some lady for company. This lady made her belive that her husband didn't love her, that he wanted to leave her. It really upsetted her. In the final scene spoiler> the heroin was seriously ill, dying as a matter of fact, but the husband, who luckily just came back, rescued her. He was holding her hand and calling her name and because of that she coulnd't go in to the nothingness (she felt as if she was in the sea and she was swimming away but the voice of her husband which she heard stopped her). The count didn't know anything about her state because, as he said, even in the hell she would write cheerful letters didn't want to bother him.(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

[Irm]

I know what that book is - someone has found it for me :D It's The Making of a Marchioness

[Kagama-the Literaturevixen]

Nice to see you found your book albeit on your own :)