The sun was above the oaks on Bayou Teche now, but in the deep, early morning shadows the mist still hung like clouds of smoke among the cattails and damp tree trunks. It was only March, but spring was roaring into southern Louisiana, as it always does after the long gray rains of Fe...
“You can’t give the title over to some distant cousin. I could very well be with child.” But she wasn’t with child, and when the earl’s will was read one month later (the solicitors had wanted to be sure to give the countess enough time to know for sure if she was pregnant...
Nor, as he replied to a question he was often asked, did he feel remorse, in any case. He said as much in 1986 in a prison interview with the television journalist Charlie Rose. “So you didn’t care?” Mr. Rose asked, invoking Ms. Tate and her unborn child. “Care?” Mr. Mans...
“I might be with child!” she hastened to tell the earl’s solicitors. “You can’t give the title over to some distant cousin. I could very well be with child.” But she wasn’t with child, and when the earl’s will was read one month later (the solicitors had wanted to be ...