During a country-house weekend at Ellingham Hall, Bungay, Norfolk, the home of W. Henry Smith,[REF] Hughes-Hallett was caught in the bedroom of Beatrice Selwyn, whose stepmother had been Hughes-Hallett's first wife [REF].
The affair had been of some duration, having begun in the Hughes-Hallett's London residence, where he lived with his second wife and his minor children.