Plot
Fred Neville, heir of the Earl of Scroope and a lieutenant of cavalry stationed in
Kate was sweet and, beautiful, and her distracted
mother saw in Fred Neville a means of lifting her daughter from her present
poverty. Trusting in Fred's intent to marry her, Kate found that she was
bearing his child. When he refused to marry her, giving the
feeble excuse of a promise given his uncle that he would not marry a Catholic
girl, Kate's maddened mother pushed him over a cliff and he was killed.
She was adjudged insane and confined in an asylum. Kate's child died and she
joined her dishonored father in
GEROULD,
WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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