![]() ![]() By learning some scandalous skills Benedict hopes to give some options to the most trapped figure in all of polite society - an unhappy wife. ![]() Meanwhile Benedict embarks on an adventure with his rogue of an uncle, Wilbert, to save his childhood friend and neighbour Genevieve Horton who has become the unhappy Lady Sumner. Mr Scribster, his ill-favoured, unpleasant, unfeeling friend, guesses more than she would like and offers Honoria a place to concentrate her dislike and frustration. His kindness to all her family leaves Honoria with no legitimate excuse to escape marriage. Mr Allison, (annoyingly handsome and kind) fails to propose as expected and leaves abruptly - but invites the confused family to stay at Bassington Hall, his own country home. ![]() When Mr Allison arrives, there is another problem. Her siblings, Serena and Benedict find this highly amusing, but after Honoria overhears a conversation between her parents about their finances she realises she must marry Mr Allison, and this constraint leaves her martyred and unhappy and unable to share her feelings. But he had spoken to her father, determined to ask her for her hand. Crippled by her timidity, she hardly looked at him when they'd met during her first London season. She doesn't remember what he looked like. ![]() When the eligible Mr Allison is to come to Fenton Manor to woo Honoria, there is a problem. Take two beautiful sisters, who resemble each other, plus three eligible suitors and you have a sparkling romance. ![]()
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