Constance wept and the other women gathered around her. Olive held her and patted her, telling her everything was going to be alright. Constance's father had been killed. Without her father and with no brothers, Constance and her mother and sisters would no longer be able to live on their estate unless the male relative that would inherit it allowed them too. Constance said it was her younger cousin and he had quite a lot of siblings so she didn't think there would be room for them all.
"It'll be alright," Olive had assured her, "You'll stay with me at my parents, and then you can live with Bernard and me after we're married. Or maybe you'll find a husband of your own by then! Don't worry we won't let you be homeless."
