“He would have preferred the guillotine to matrimony. A shame he wasn’t French and born a decade or two earlier, it would have solved all his problems. The way things were going, he half expected, she’d say I don’t instead of I do. But only if he was incredibly lucky. Only a week ago her father had approached him, he knew the Wolverton estate was in need of repair and an heir, as he bluntly put it, his daughter was available with a very large dowry and he wanted her settled immediately. “Why not... give her a London Season?” Dare asked suspiciously, only willing to entertain the notion because it would absolve him of the unfortunate duty of attending both Almack’s and a series of hot stuffy ballrooms in search of an appropriate wealthy bride. “Daizie has her own ideas and she is well…somewhat unconventional!” “How unconventional?” “Unfortunately so.” “Is she ugly?” he had to ask, there must be some reason other than the girl being somewhat unconventional that her father would deny her a Season.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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