The bored bridegroom

"For as long as Lucretia Hedley could remember, she had loved the Merlyncourt estate and its handsome young lord, the Marquis. He was the most desired bachelor in all of Regency England and now, suddenly, she was to become the Marquis' wife and mistress of Merlyncourt. But Lucretia knew the Marquis. She knew he had no patience for innocent, sweet girls. He would soon be bored with her and she would lose him"--P. [i].