![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Horatia meets and befriends Lord Lethbridge, who seeks revenge on the Earl for his role in thwarting Lethbridge's attempts to elope with Lady Louisa, Rule's sister, several years earlier. ![]() The Earl is also obliged to make regular financial donations to support Horatia's likeable but debt-ridden brother, Pelham. Horatia quickly becomes a popular and fashionable society wife, spending vast amounts of money on sensational outfits and at gambling on cards. The wedding takes place and, as tacitly agreed upon, the Earl continues his association with his mistress, Lady Caroline Massey. Part of the deal she proposes to Rule is that she will not interfere with his activities after their marriage. Her youngest sister Horatia, a 17-year-old young woman with a stammer, decides to take matters into her own hands, meeting with the Earl and persuading him to marry her instead of Elizabeth and thus leaving Elizabeth free to marry her true (but far less eligible) love. When the wealthy and eligible Earl of Rule, 35 years old, proposes marriage to Elizabeth Winwood, she resigns herself to marrying against her will to rescue the fortunes of her impoverished family. Later examples include Friday's Child and April Lady. It is the first of several Heyer romances where the hero and heroine are married early in the novel, and the plot follows their path to mutual love and understanding. The Convenient Marriage is a Georgian romance novel by Georgette Heyer set in 1776. ![]()
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