“If you’d known he was a billionaire — if you’d known, that first minute at the dinner, exactly who he was — you would have treated Grace like royalty.

You’d have picked up her cane.

You’d have complimented her dress.

You’d have spent the whole evening charming a blind woman you couldn’t be bothered to be decent to when you thought she had nothing you wanted.” Victoria said nothing, because there was nothing to say, because it was true, and because the truth of it was the most damning thing anyone could have said about her.

Her cruelty had never been about Grace at all.