The Lady Behind Her Smile
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The Great Exhibition, London 1851. Lady Catherine Hayward meets the man she was never supposed to meet again.
Now married with four children, twenty nine year old Catherine meets him again, the one whom she had loved as a young lady of eighteen. Did she ever stop loving him?
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