"Lively, amusing...done to a turn!"—Kirkus Reviews A fateful mistake... When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employ

Old Eustace Cheviot may have been a scoundrel and a drunkard, but he was Elinor Rochdale's only hope. The destitute widow was drawn into the marriage scheme by

An impoverished governess applies for a post and arrives at the wrong house. By midnight she is a married to the ailing owner, by dawn she is a widow. Overnight