Mar 21
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Secretly she preferred it this way. Well… perhaps ‘preferred’ was a bit of a stretch. She did want to fulfil her duty to wed– if not purely to have the freedom of running her own household. The problem was that as polite and proper as the gentlemen of the ton were they were equally as dull and as daft.
Growing up, she imagined finding a match that was handsome and proud yet also containing the capacity for intellect, wit, and sensitivity. Perhaps she had fallen victim to the kind words of some of the novels she read. Maybe it wasn’t feasible to expect to find a husband who possessed all of those traits.
