The Pride o' the Morning by Agnes Giberne

SOME twenty-eight years before the date of this tale James Randolph, the then owner of Castle Hill, with his wife, spent a winter in the south of France, being ordered there for health. At the same place, staying also, was his brother-in-law, Geoffry Keith. Keith's first wife, the sister of James, had died years earlier; and his second wife, "née" Cecil Reeves, was an attractive young woman.

Mrs. Randolph and Mrs. Keith became warm friends. Then, unexpectedly, Geoffry Keith died, leaving his widow totally unprovided for. Her child, Colin, was born before arrangements for her future could be discussed, and the Randolphs saw that she had everything she needed.