YOU ARE THE CAUSE OF EVERY ILL THAT HAS BEFALLEN ME! YOU SAY I ILL USED YOU- IF I DID YOU ARE WONDERFULLY REVENGED FOR YOU HAVE RUINED ME! Endowed with rank, wealth and elegance, Sylvester, Duke of Salford posts into Wiltshire to discover if the Hon Phoebe Marrlow will meet his exacting requirements for a bride. If he does not expect to meet a tongue-tied stripling wanting both manner and conduct, then he is intrigued indeed when his visit causes Phoebe to flee her home. They meet again on the road to London, where her carriage has come to grief in the snow. yet Phoebe, already caught in one imbroglio, now knows she soon could well be deep in another.