The problem is that the concentration of the story drifts from there into other waters. (!) When her mother and sisters find out they all nearly conniption from the horror and embarrassment, but when it turns out that Rule rather liked the audacity of it all things look much brighter. Purely a business arrangement, you understand, and neither of them expected to interfere with the other he can even keep seeing his mistress. She tromps off to present herself to Rule and – calmly, coolly, and collectedly – offer herself as a substitute. So Horatia – though very young by current standards – takes matters into her own hands. Given the family's financial situation – including a brother who enjoys the drink and the gambling – there is no choice: Elizabeth must marry the rich lord and not her penniless soldier boy. Horatia ("Horry") (note to parents everywhere: don't name your child Horatia, or that's what will happen) Winwood sees her older sister Elizabeth being drawn inexorably into a terrible situation: she loves someone else, but the Earl of Rule has asked for her hand. All I've ever heard about her is how wonderful her books are, the epitome of their genre, not to be missed. This was my first Georgette Heyer, to which I was irresistibly drawn by the fact that it's an audiobook read by Richard (Thornton Guisborne Thorin) Armitage.
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