![]() The novel is good in its depiction of the post-war womanhood though as the noose tightens around the independent, willful Zella she has to turn to the men around her for protection which is kind of sad. On seeing the wife of the man she loves, Zella realises that there is no future with Broke who meanwhile can’t bear to lose Zella. In order to nip any scandal in the bud, she invites Broke’s wife Agnes too the very next day. However, Jane is aghast when she realises the closeness between Zella and the captain. Zella plays no heed to her cousin’s warnings and along with Broke, in fact, arranges matter so that Jane invites the captain to a weekend party to her famed country-house. John tells her that even if the last was true from her side, Broke was totally taken up with her. And further, Zella asserts, she has no romantic inclination towards Castledyne. As for his wife, she was a sickly creature who remained at home. Zella pooh-poohs her cousin’s concerns and tells him that Broke’s bravery during the war was exemplary and in military circles it was acknowledged that he should have got a VC. Unknown to Zella, John carries a torch for her and the novel opens with John cautioning his young headstrong cousin against her friendship with the much older Captain Broke Castledyne, a friendship that has set tongues wagging: Broke is years older than Zella, was involved in something disreputable during the war, and worse is married to boot. The other half would go to her distant cousin, John Pomfret along with Jane’s considerable fortune as John is quite a favourite of Jane who dislikes the bohemian set in which Zella moves about. ![]() Zella Blunt, the female protagonist of Marie Belloc Lowndes’ Who Rides on a Tiger stands to inherit one half of the prestigious country-house Jerricks after the demise of her aunt, Jane. ![]()
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