The Hipsley Reputation

THEY ARE NOT ORDINARY RIVALS FOR THEY HAVE DUELED BEFORE -- ONLY THIS TIME IT IS BECAUSE OF A WOMAN....

Humphrey Freen, the Earl of Begbroke, and Major Guy Hipsley. This time they meet, not at dawn, but in the evening; not in the dewy forest, but on the dance floor; not with a secret witness or two, but with all the Ton to see, at the height of the social season!

And the object of their rivalry? Miss Anne Thouvenal, half English and half French, a pretty little lady with independent ways and means who couldn't care less that a lord and a major make such fools of themselves over her in public. In private, though, she couldn't care more....