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The Somerset House Visit and a Hidden Love Revealed
A narrator recalls arriving at a grandmother’s house to find a stranger, Mr. David Alcott, in her chair and sharing tea. A bond forms as poetry and conversation unfold, revealing a lover’s resolve, a looming illness, and a love triangle that ends with an offer to marry and a hopeful plan to divorce the other man.
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Somerset Station
van Ce Nile
Grandmother
Heliotrope
Madge
Sarah
David Alcott
Susan Elis
Mrs. Browning
Lord Walter
Arora Leigh
Sue
Panada
Mrs. Ellis
David
Campagne
Amie
Dave
Abi
Lorehen
Elisa
Bueha
Lorchken
Lorchen