The woman who sweeps into the room in a nurse’s uniform and heads straight for the kitchen sink to wash up is, at the very least, utterly stunning. Edmund has taste, Aidan has to give him that.

After the call, Olivier came to join Aidan and Lilliana on their edge of the kitchen, explaining that Mathilde is a very capable nurse and Edmund’s fiancée. This had, naturally, shocked what little sense Aidan had managed to gather up until that point right back out of ...