An elusive love

the long version

Beautiful, high-spirited Rebecca Langford cannot really be called meddlesome, but when she sees a situation that does not seem right to her, she cannot resist taking a hand. And when Rebecca takes a hand, she does not willingly let go. So finding that the Earl of Compton has made a practice of avoiding society, both in London and at his ancestral seat in Suffolk, Rebecca plunges in, determined to mend matters. The earl, if not in the first flush of youth, is young enough, wealthy and attractive and should, Rebecca feels, be enjoying life more than he allows himself to...