Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. Cytherea has taken a position as lady’s maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the infl uence of Miss Aldclyffe’s fascinating, manipulative steward Manston.