Publisher's Synopsis
`Do you imagine that I wish for a wife upon such terms? You mistake the matter, my girl, believe me!' `Then release me from so intolerable a situation! To be obliged to beg your consent! Something must be done. The Earl of Spenborough always had been noted for his eccentricity. Leaving a widow younger than his own daughter was one thing. . . Leaving his fortune to the trusteeship of the Marquis of Rotheram-the one man the same daughter had jilted was quite another.
