Status Updates From The Governess Club: Claire ...

*snort* Oh, certainly. Surely, if she loves you, she won't mind that you're lying to her. Why would anyone care about honesty?

Wait, what the hell? Jealousy isn't sexy, and I don't think it's cool to have the heroine figure out she's in love with the hero on the tails of his accusing her of smiling too much at other men, demanding that she never dance with another man ever, and proclaiming that she belongs to him. What, precisely, is lovable about a grown ass man acting like a child throwing a tantrum?

Jacob is the younger son of a Duke. As such he would not be an earl. He would just be Lord Jacob. Unless he had been granted a title for some meritorious service to the Crown, which I doubt this young man would have. I just hate it when HR authors screw up titles!