Cousin Kate redux

Some time ago I was writing a blog on the Cousin Kate novel by Georgette Heyer. It is one of her last novel.. published in 1968. I let it lapse so Im going to go back to it. It is set in England a few years after Waterloo, and Kate Malvern the heroine, is a governess of 24. Her father was an army officer and she spent many years with him in the Peninsular War, looking after him and providing him with support on the march, when her mother had died. Her father's family were upper class and her mother's family were poorer and less well bred and both families had fallen out with the Malverns when they married. Kate did not know any of her relatives. She and her father came back to England when the war ended, and moved into a set of elegant rooms. However, Major Malvern was a gambler and in attempting to keep them with his gaming, he ended up losing most of his small fortune. Kate found a job as a governess in the countryside, and set out to earn her living, at the age of 23. She had had some support from her former nurse, Sarah, who had married a man with a small business, in London. Joe Nidd had a carriers business and he and Sarah lived in the City with his aged father and relatives.. and Kate knew she could turn to the homely motherly Sarah in a crisis. Kate arrives at Sarah's house, having lost her job because the brother of her employer tried to kiss her and when she refused to kiss or marry him, there was an uproar in the house. Sarah is glad to see her, but shes worried that as Kate is young and pretty, its not going to be easy for her to get a new job. Kate tells her that she is considering seeking domestic work, as perhaps a lady's maid, rather than a governess because it is better paid....and Sarah is horrified at the thought of her nursling becoming a servant. She decides to write to Major Malvern's family to see if they would forget the old quarrel and give her a home. She and her father in law find that the Majors half sister is married to a wealthy baronet, who owns a well known stately home Staplewood. Lady Broome arrives in London to see her neice and seems a kindly if rather severe woman who offers her a home at least for a visit. She is obviously very rich and fashionable and tells Kate that her husband, the baronet, is a lot older than her and they have one son a boy of 19 called Torquil. Kate agrees to go for a visit and to hope that Lady Broome can find her a job in a little while as she does not want to be beholden to her aunt.