Review: Different
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2014
I found this story to be interesting but extremely frustrating.  The reader gets to see the story from several points of view.Our heroine goes to work for a gentleman who has just returned from India.  The man is kind but indifferent -- not even bothering to find out her name.  She is just a servant after all.  But the hapless gentleman is taken in by a local hussy.  She seduces him and tells him she is pregnant.  He, being the honorable fellow he is, marries the wench and hopes for the best.I tried to like the hero of this story but -- and apologies to the author for this is her family -- he came off as being ridiculously ignorant of some basic facts of life.  How can a man not realize his supposedly pregnant wife is experiencing her monthly courses?  He had lived out in the real world and wasn't some ignorant, wet behind the ears kid.I realize divorce was almost impossible to attain at that time, but I felt he asked too much of the young heroine.  I do wonder how the people of the town treated her in the following years.  Pregnant and living as the man's wife.  Everyone knew he was still legally married to another.The story was interesting though a little dry.  I really do hope their lives were filled with happiness.