It would seem that x went off with y's wife. So y (feeling peeved) went off with someone else and so did x's wife and then as they all felt a bit peeved they went off with other people and .... I quite lost track of the story except for the end part where one of them - a pensioner - went off with his younger cousin's wife and ended up marrying her and then having a stroke.
Could this be a warning to us pensioners? Are we perhaps too old for such capers?
So - new younger wife of cousin is having to look after him.
Could this be a lesson to younger wives not to have affairs with pensioners?
How could this all have started in such a respectable, peaceful place?
The answer according to those I have talked to is this -
Incomers - White settlers
It is said that it was all started by one man from England with more money than morals!
No No say others. It started before that, when the woman arrived who went off with her gamekeeper.
Dearie me - a Lady Chatterley's lover ?
Yes - and another incomer - not "one of us"
Surely this sort of thing never happened before?
Did it?
I explore the old newspapers -
Shock horror and shock horror and shock horror!
It would seem that the old aristo's where just as capable of such things.
How could I have forgotten Lady Magnesia Freelove?
But - most of the old toffs had their own rules.
Like the monarch, they did not marry for love but for business. After they had produced the "heir and a spare" they could then seek love and sex elsewhere, as long as they were fairly discreet. Scandal was not good for the family name. Divorce used to be considered a scandal so not encouraged
But all is different now, as Prince Charles discovered. The rules of encounter have changed.
One of the main differences is that the horror of scandal is no more
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