Can you forgive her part II

Glencora submits to her family's pressure but she knows it is wrong for her. She continues to love Burgo and finds it hard to avoid seeing him at social events. She and Plantagenet have little in common and he is dull and shy, and not able to express his emotions easily. Glencora respects him, because he is essentially a good man but she and he are always at odds. Plantagenet works very hard, at his political career and hopes that his wife will produce an heir, but there is no sign of a baby and Glencora has no outlet for her feelings. She asks him to let her invite her distant cousin, Alice to stay.. and he agrees. She feels a little better when she has a confidante but Alice is prudish and awkward and does not understand her cousin very well. Burgo has an aunt, Lady Monk who sympathises with her attractive nephew and feels that he and Glencora should have been allowed to marry...so she offers him help. Burgo begins to make vague plans for running off with her - and living in Europe. Alice starts to see her cousin George again, but she is scared by his violent streak, and knows that John Grey, even if he is quiet and dull, would be a better husband.