“You might as well be dead, my love, if you are not Lady Windlow when this becomes known.”
Mrs Harrington’s opinion is the voice of the Polite World. So Miss Louisa Parke is compelled to accept the offer of Simon, Lord Windlow — whose only sin was to break his leg in a carriage accident and subsequently spend a night in a barn in her company! Neither party has the least desire to marry the other, and the match is not expected to be a success. Yet, when Louisa appears to be concerning herself with Simon’s moonstruck brother-in-law, Henry Landry, her husband’s outrage is not solely on his sister’s behalf ...