Distant Sunset

''We are married now,'' said Richard softly. ''We may not be married in a church and you may not have taken my name, but here... here we are married.''

19th century Devon. On the day Richard Applevale leaves for India, Elizabeth Shawcross gives herself to him, secure in the knowledge that he loves her, and that he will one day return to make her his wife.

But Elizabeth soon finds herself pregnant ...