It was indisputably love at first sight. But Victoria Lyndon was merely the teenaged daughter of a vicar… while Robert Kemble was the dashing young earl of Macclesfield. Surely what their meddlesome fathers insisted must have been true-that he was a reckless seducer determined to destroy her innocence, and she was a shameless fortune hunter. So it most certainly was for the best when their plans to elope went hopelessly awry.