Her Aunt Said She Was Only There to Turn the Pages — The Duke Asked Her to Play Them Instead

She Won the Card Game the Duke Never Lost — He Spent the Rest of the Year Trying to Win Her

She Mistook the Duke for a Stablehand — He Answered to It for a Fortnight

"You Were Tolerated, Not Welcomed" The Duke Said — She Left Before Anyone Could Tell the Difference.

The Duke Wanted a Wife of Status — The Gardener's Daughter Made Him Want Something Real

The Duke Signed Her Out of the Contract — She Signed Herself Into a Better One

The Duke Crossed Her Name Off the Guest List — She Bought the House Before the Party Ended

"You Are Naive," the Duke Told Her — She Rebuilt the Bridge His Family Had Left to Rot

The News From Derby Reached Ninefields a Little After Noon — The Duke Arrived That Evening for Coal

"We Require Shelter," the Duke Said — She Told Him He Could Carry the Horses the Last Mile

She Had Heard of the Duke and Was Not Impressed — He Found This Completely Irresistible

Someone Introduced Them Wrongly and No One Corrected It — The Duke Asked Her Name Twice

The Duke Sent Her Three Gifts In a Week — She Returned All Three With a Polite Note

The Duke Was Caught in Her Village During the Floods — She Put Him to Work and He Did Not Complain

The Duke Had Never Had to Introduce Himself — She Asked His Name Because She Genuinely Did Not Know

The Commission Came From the Duke of Marne's Secretary — She Was in His Library Before He Knew It

The Duke Had Never Been Contradicted at His Own Table — She Did It Twice and Finished Her Soup

She Had Not Come to Ashmore to Be Looked At — The Duke Was the Only One Who Understood That

"She Paints Flowers, Nothing More" the Duke's Sister Sneered — The Royal Academy Disagreed

The Duke Expected Something Shabbier — The Brass Knocker Had Been Polished That Morning

She Had Been Away Eight Months and Came Back Without Warning — The Duke's Valet Left His Service

The Duke Stood by the East Window With a Glass He Had Not Touched — She Was the Only One Who Saw

Dunmore Had Twelve Bedrooms and One Working Chimney — She Was the Only Guest the Duke Kept

She Ran the Lending Library at Mossfield — The Duke Came Back Every Week and Borrowed Nothing

Mrs. Partridge Seated Her Twenty-Three Guests Badly on Purpose — The Duke Was Placed Beside Her

The Sale at Calloway's Began at Ten — By Half Past, the Duke Had Been Outbid by a Woman He'd Mocked

"Let Her Play at Farming" the Duke Said — His Tenants Paid Their Rents to Her by Spring

She Counted the Duke's Smiles From the Gallery — Seven in Eleven Minutes, and None of Them Real

"Pretty Enough, Sharp as a Spoon" the Duke Told His Valet — The Spoon Cut Him Down to Size

She Arrived With a Ruined Hat and a Book of Greek — The Duke Asked Her to Read It Aloud

"I'd Rather Be a Spinster Than Your Duchess" She Said — What He Did 3 Years Later Changed Her Mind

She Had Fourteen Minutes Before She Was Required to Be Charming — She Spent Them on the Duke's Debt

Weyborne Had No Reason to Expect a Duke — He Arrived on a Grey Horse With One Servant and No Name

The Duke Came to King Street and Asked to Speak to Mr. Rowe — Diana Rowe Offered Him a Chair

Sir Edmund Lit the Candles an Hour Before They Were Needed — The Duke Noticed Who Sat in the Dark

She'll Cry at the Sight of Mud, the Duke Said — She Rode Through a Storm to Save His Harvest

The Duke Preferred a Column of Figures to Almost Anything — Then He Burned the Annulment Papers

Three Days Before the Wedding the Duke Asked Her to Be Invisible — The Room Went Silent Anyway

She Stepped Toward the Terrace for Air and Heard a Stranger Describing Her — So Did the Duke

The Church Clock in Marlbury Stopped in 1809 and No One Mended It — The Duke Asked Her Why

Every Soul in the Harbour Would Learn the Duke Owed His Fortune to a Woman in Trade — He Did Not

"I'm Not the Girl You Left Behind" She Told the Duke — He Knew She Was Right

The Duke's Sister Kept Every Letter He Wrote About Her — She Read Them Aloud the Night He Denied It

I Pity the Man Who Marries Her, the Duke Said — He Was That Man by Friday

Three Carriages Reached Aldermere at the Same Hour — The Duke Married the Woman in the Last One

Winchester Had Already Decided What Would Happen When the Duke Arrived — No One Asked Her

The Duke Gave Her a List of Things a Duchess Doesn't Do — She Kept It as a Guide

She Watched the Carriage Come Up the Drive and Thought It Too Good for the Duke — She Was Wrong

The Duke Spent Three Days To Reach the Same Answer — She Solved It on the Carriage Ride Over

The Earl Didn't Want a Wife. He Wanted Her Gone. She Stayed.

"She Isn't Worth Fighting For" the Duke Said — He Was at Her Door by Morning

Ashcroft Had Learned to Step Out of the Duke's Shadow Quietly — She Arrived and Did Not

"She Won't Last a Week Here" the Duke Told His Butler — She Outlasted His Engagement

"I Saw You With Her" She Told the Duke — She Had Already Packed Before He Could Explain

She Had Been in the Village Six Months When the Duke Needed a Field — She Had Bought It in April

The Duke Told Her She Was Beneath Him. She Laughed and Walked Away.

She Stood Behind the Door and Heard What the Duke Thought of Her — She Said Good Evening

The Duke Wrote to Mr. Drummond About the Estate — Mr. Drummond Had Been Dead Since February

The Duke Said Their Marriage Was Only Convenience — She Believed Him, And That Was His Mistake

The Only One Who Believed the Duke's Match Was Love Was the Gardener — She Left Before the Wedding