The Money Master, Volume 3.

The novel follows life at a rural manor and parish where a prosperous, widowed father cares for his beloved daughter, who hides a long‑standing grief over her mother's unexplained disappearance. A charismatic English actor, visiting to recover his health, wins the daughter's affection and draws suspicion because of his foreignness, profession, and Protestantism. Their secret courtship and a sudden elopement strain family loyalties, ignite parish gossip and clerical censure, and force characters to confront questions of honor, social prejudice, private sorrow, and the uneasy border between public reputation and intimate attachment.