Review: The Mistress At Midnight
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2013
Plump, plain, blemished skin; Alexandra Carmichael, forced into a marriage, from an early betrothal, to Lord Seddon, who left her after walking out of the church after the ceremony and did not return. For four years, Alexandra resided at her husband's home and he still had not shown up. Alexandra, out from under the influence of her coldly distant parents, had flourished, become flamboyant and was not the same woman who had married Seddon.She receives a short letter from her husband stating that he will be coming to her in July to see what his duty is. She interprets that this is to mean he would get her with child and leave again. Anger that has built for four years, prods Alexandra to go to London before her husband arrives. She takes a house in London and with the help of an old friend,starts appearing at affairs under the name, Lexie Hermitage, a widow.She has confided to her friend that she intends to become her husband's mistress and teach him a lesson. Since she no longer looks like the same pudgy girl who married Seddon and he has admitted to his friends that all he remembers from the wedding is a pudgy girl in an orangey colored dress, the ruse seems  to be viable.