When Mary Farnham, a beautiful young heiress, runs away from an intolerable home situation, she is ill prepared for the likes of Captain Randall Carswell, a charming man who seems at once both hero and villain
dragged out, the reasons for the hero and heroine not marrying seems overly contrived. also the heroine couldn't tell the "trap" (in quotes because it was SO obvious) was a trap and rejected the hero, guess beauty makes up for lack of brains