Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

They lived at Cleve House in Seend near Melksham in Wiltshire which was adorned with Squire Bell's many hunting trophies. She was informed by her mother Vanessa just prior to her marriage and shortly after her brother Julian's death that in fact Duncan Grant was her biological father. Clive lived in London but often spent long stretches of time at the idyllic farmhouse of Charleston where Vanessa lived with Duncan and her three children by Clive and Duncan.