Although I prefer stories where the male and female leads detest each other at first or there's a good adventure, this story wasn't too bad. Diana Travis is a very young (17 going on 18) lady that has a disturbing although rather romantic run in with the Duke of Clare, reputed to be a rake. He immediately protests his love for her and his determination to make her his Duchess but she believes he's just playing with her affections and is really in love with the beautiful yet cold and conniving Lady Ponsonby. There are misunderstandings but not to the extent where you want to knock their two heads together so I enjoyed it. Good fluff that I needed to read after reading "Great Expectations". ( )