Poldark Novels IV

Ross and Demelza have difficulties in their marriage, but they have another child, Clowance. Then Demelza, depressed at Ross' continuing feelings for Elizabeth, becomes infatuated with Hugh Armitage, a young Navy officer, and they have a brief affair. But Hugh dies and Ross tries to forgive his wife and tolerate her one infidelity. Meantime Dwight Enys, the doctor and Ross's close friend, has found a wife, the aristocratic and horsey Caroline Penvenen, and they have a daughter, Sarah. Morwenna tries to get over her feelings for Drake Carne but she grows to hate Osborne, her husband, who is unkind and bullying and who forces her to have sex which she hates. She and Ossie have a son, Conan and in desperation, Morwenna tells him that if he continues to force his sexual attentions on her, she will kill his son. He tries to see if he could put her away as a madwoman but as a clergyman, he cannot get a divorce. He is afraid of Morwenna's threat but he finds a temporary solution in an affair with her sister, Rowella who has moved in to help with the children. However Rowella then tells him she's pregnant and that if he pays her off, she will marry a young man, Arthur who has a post as a librarian but not much money.. and he will take the child off Ossie's hands.