However, the marriage endured despite their homosexual affairs. They hads two children, the art critic BenedictNicholson and the published Nigel Nicholson. In 1923 the art critic Clive Bell introduced Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, and the two became lovers. Her other and life long companion was Violet Trefusis, the daughter of Alice Keppel, Edward VII's mistress. The greater cats with golden eyes Stare out between the bars.
Deserts are there, and different skies, And night with different stars.
Violet ja Vita had met in childhood and their relatioship continued until after their respective marriages. At one point they 'eloped' to France and their husbands had to persuade them to return to Enhland. It depicted a Greek vineyard owner who was torn between his love for a woman and for his island home. Sackville-West's father died in 1928 and her brother became the fourth Baron Sackville, inheriting Knole. Her husband decided in 1929 to resign from the foreign service and devote himself to writing.