Джорджетт Хейер: The Corinthian

Beautiful Penelope Creed had known Piers Luttrell from childhood. They had early pledged their love to each other, eagerly awaiting the day they could turn it into a lifelong reality.

But now there was another man in her life. A dashing figure of a London dandy, the witty, worldly, handsome Sir Richard Wyndham, a man who made his own rules of life and love, a man who was everything Piers was not.

How could she choose between them? How could she even compare these two who shared nothing in common? Nothing, that is, but her heart …