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Mr. Corran William Lennox resided in the country. His father, Sir Edward William Lennox, was a man highly respected and esteemed as well as highly prosperous. The name Lennox resounded in the upper-class ear with a heavy echoing note and was constant on the lips of well-to-do neighborhood gossipers. However, the piteous blows that would level any other man of precarious social-standing only stood to boost Sir Edward to admiration in his peers' eyes.

The late Lady Melanie Lennox bore two sons to her beloved husband before her life was taken by illness. Sir Edward, though a proudly stiff man, sincerely loved Lady Melanie and this first blow nearly drove him senseless. Three full years straightened his back and his resolution once again. He remarried the fourth year to a gentle woman of noble birth, fifteen years his junior. She, frail and slight as she was, gave him a daughter, Pearl.

A second blow to Sir Edward's pride only stiffened his backbone. Mr. Theodore William Lennox, Sir Edward's eldest son, was a drunkard and a cad. Nothing Sir Edward would do could reverse the harm this did to the family name save disinheritance, and since his pride outgrew his fatherly love, this was just was Sir Edward set his will to.