Pippa

the long version

The Contrary Miss Cranville: Miss Phillipa Cranville-known to all as Pippa-was surely the most obstinate, willful, maddeningly intractable young beauty ever to set the tongues of society to wagging. First she ran away from an eminently suitable suitor-the worthy if unexciting Mr. Robert Danston-who had been handpicked as her perfect partner. Then she flung herself into the arms of the exquisitely elegant, handsome, and charming Mr. Sidney Ottway, whom her guardian, Sir Anthony Seymour-Croft, warned her to stay away from...