The fortunate belle

As the indisputable belle among the bevy of the Lacebridge lovelies,
Elizabeth was extravagantly spoiled and accustomed to getting her own
way. Supremely confident of her dazzling charms, she determined to set
her cap for no less than the richest bachelor in sight.
Emerging as the toast of the social season, she was besieged by host
of London's most eligible and dashing young men as well as one
slightly older, if handsome and sophisticated, suitor who impressed
her not at all.
As she shamelessly calculated who could best satisfy her high
ambitions, she thought she had considered everything.But she had never
planned on actually giving her heart- and to, of all people an older
but wiser gentleman who was still young enough to teach the astonished
beauty there was more to the game of love than money