Morals of Marcus Ordeyne

Sir Marcus Ordeyne never wanted a title or money, yet circumstances thrust both upon him, converting a plain schoolmaster into a wealthy baronet with nothing to do but ponder the idle question of what to do with himself. His answer arrives in the form of Luxima, a young woman found wandering in a London park with nothing but a story that sounds like fantasy: escaped from a Turkish harem, sent to England for a mercenary marriage, abandoned by the man who rescued her. Marcus, a thoroughly decent man troubled by no one except himself, does what seems obvious. He takes her home. What follows is the gentlest of scandals, a comedy of manners played out in nicely appointed rooms where the respectable Edwardian world collides with something far more interesting than respectability. Locke writes with轻快的讽刺和真正的heart, crafting a love story that understands how strange it is to be human, how impossible to escape one's own nature, and how sometimes the most moral thing to do is precisely what society forbids.