Fortunes Folly

by Margaret Summerville

On the morning of his death, Sir Humphrey Maitland has his jeweler deliver an emerald necklace to a Miss M. from "her Lancelot." The necklace is received by Miss Pandora Marsh, who, regardless of the enclosed note, knows nothing of Lancelot. That delivery sets in motion a chain of events that forever change the life of Pandora and her aristocratic but genteelly impoverished family. 1994.