Julian isn’t keen on marrying the “plain Jane” he hasn’t even seen before (it was dark and then he was unconscious and then she was gone) but is being forced to do his duty or risk his inheritance. As you would expect, she screams and fellow guests come running and there is a scandal, which results in their betrothal. Lord Eppingham Julian Blackworth has mistakenly taken a right instead of a left and joined her in bed. At a house party, Izzy is having the most glorious sex dream, only to wake and find out that it is not a dream at all. Therefore, she expects to be single all her life and has a dream to immigrate to the American colonies and there forge a happy, if solitary, life for herself. Izzy is put to work in the house and constantly told she’s plain and unattractive. Orphaned at age 12, she was taken in by her aunt Hildegarde, a woman perennially jealous of Izzy’s mother. Isadora (“Izzy”) Temple is a kind of Cinderella.
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