Enter Mrs. Belchamber // The Frenchman and the Lady — Elizabeth Cadell

A tedious journey brings together a handsome man and the trio of young children in his charge with the disdainful, autocratic Mrs. Belchamber who obviously disapproves of his methods of handling children. Mrs. Belchamber was not invited but Mrs. Belchamber came to stay. The changes she introduced into Scotty's topsy-turvy Kentish farmhouse were past belief. But though Christopher Heron could not help feeling some concern that he had landed on his friend a woman of character as well as three lively French children, the Belchamber influence on his own friendship with Cressida was admittedly an almost unmixed blessing.