‘…Demelza’s defection, her infatuation with the young sailor- poet Hugh Armitage, her unfaithfulness in thought - and he suspected deed….God, how it had hurt at the time! It had burnt him like an acid…
Perhaps it had been salutary in a way to discover how much, among all the thousands of women in the world, he depended upon one woman for his happiness.’
Ross Poldark - Book “ The Twisted Sword”




















