


She cuts her hair ( knowing her husband loved her long hair ) and she buys new clothes, and in all appearances is a changed woman, since she is planning to entice a man to her bed. So she comes up with a plot, that will help her achieve such a goal. She wants to have a child no matter the circumstance in which the child is conceived. So while with a friend out shopping one day, she decides that she needs a change. Helene eventually leaves, after a long discussion that proved hopeless. When Helene asks him for a divorce, he is blunt with his answers, having no compassion for his wife's desires or wants in having children. He is content with having a wife in name, and having passions in the flesh with other women with which he has no attachment to. He is a scoundrel and has had many illicit affairs outside of his marriage. Rees, The Earl of Godwin is a rake through and through. However when she goes to ask her husband for a divorce he denies her.

Now ten years later, Helene wants something she yearns for, a child. Since she found no pleasure in sexual encounters with her husband at the beginning only found pain, they started to drift apart. It seemed to Helene that their marriage was doomed from the start. They eloped knowing it would be against her parents wishes. When she met him she was young and believed herself in love with him. Helene, the Countess of Godwin, has been married to her husband for over ten years.
