Belles and Ringers

“The bell responds to the clapper; but who is it that makes the clapper speak? The ringer.” At Todborough Grange, Lady Mary Bloxam is sure she knows how to make a marriage ring.

During the Easter holidays, the Bloxams gather friends at their country house, where the London season’s matchmaking has followed them into the drawing-room. Lady Mary has a plan: bring handsome Lionel Beauchamp together with her beautiful younger daughter, Blanche, and give nature a little “judicious forcing.” But her knowing friend Pansey Cottrell hints that another pretty girl may upset the careful arrangement. Can Lady Mary keep this courtship to her own tune?

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