Heiress Annalise Avery has been ill; she overhears her fiance' talking about his mistress(es) to Annalise's stepfather. The two men have decided to divide Annalise's fortune between themselves. Annalise wants no part of either man and so she runs away to London and her aunt.
However, when she gets there (with her old nanny and her husband, a former highwayman), she finds that her aunt has gone to Vienna. While waiting for her aunt to return, Annalise and the servants take over the house. One day, they find out that the house has been leased to Lord Gardiner and he plans to use it as a love nest.
Annalise disguises herself as an ugly housekeeper and decides that Lord Gardiner needs to learn some restraint, so she thwarts each of the Lord's encounters with actresses and lightskirts. After a while, it is no longer funny, just tedious. Gard's interaction with Mimi was distasteful, not funny.
Overall, the humor of the early pages quickly devolved into ho-hum. Very average.
However, when she gets there (with her old nanny and her husband, a former highwayman), she finds that her aunt has gone to Vienna. While waiting for her aunt to return, Annalise and the servants take over the house. One day, they find out that the house has been leased to Lord Gardiner and he plans to use it as a love nest.
Annalise disguises herself as an ugly housekeeper and decides that Lord Gardiner needs to learn some restraint, so she thwarts each of the Lord's encounters with actresses and lightskirts. After a while, it is no longer funny, just tedious. Gard's interaction with Mimi was distasteful, not funny.
Overall, the humor of the early pages quickly devolved into ho-hum. Very average.
