When the Delano twins, Louis and Dominick, declared that they were going ahead with their wedding plans in the coming month, St Just and O’Grady decided that they wanted to make Bianca ’an honest woman,’ as O’Grady put it.

The happy news was broken during the weekend.

Louis and his fiancée had come to visit. Serena was glowing and Bianca hugged her friend in joy.

Looking down at her clasped hands, Serena said, her voice a little subdued,

“We’re …starting a family…I mean…”

Roxanne, who had also come for lunch, was thrilled. Bianca threw her arms around Serena as Roxanne cried out in delight,

“You’re pregnant?”

Serena blushed, a faint...