There was nothing mocking in her eyes, actually. It’s that you are used to being an object of great worth, and now your aunt’s happy condition has made you slightly – but only slightly, Mr. I suspect that the problem is not that you didn’t see yourself as part of that market previously. We women are, by necessity, quite familiar with the concept of the marriage market.

“Perhaps your dismay is due to your gender. Didn’t she know that young ladies did not discuss other ladies’ marriageable prospects in polite company? In other words, in the presence of a man?īefore he thought it through, he said, “I believe I am not quite used to the idea of assessing women as marrigeable commodities.” That made him sound insufferably conceited, so he added: “Of course, the assessment occurs on both sides.” You couldn’t do better than marry her.”ĭarby blinked. She has a passion for London, and will be easily satisfied by living there and riding in the Row a few times a week. “Lucy is a remarkably sweet girl who would be quite a good mother to your sisters. “Blowing Lucy Aiken down the wind,” she said promptly. “Now that was foolish,” Lady Henrietta said in a clear voice. In which an elegant London gentleman meets a lady from the country… and both are surprised. So Darby retreats to the Rawlings estate, where Esme is in confinement, to wait out his aunt’s pregnancy and, perhaps, just perhaps, to win himself an heiress… But she is carrying a child, and the sex of that child will determine whether her husband’s nephew, Simon Darby, inherits the Rawlings estate. For those of you who read Duchess In Love: Esme Rawlings’s husband is dead.

Fool for love by eloisa james