Arrogant Aristocrat

She brought herself up short. All this daydreaming was pointless. She, Daphne Brown, the virtually penniless daughter of a later Devonshire Squire, had come to London to seek employment, not high society. Lord Stranham would no more fall in love with her than he would fly. — And yet there was a the evening at Almacks. And there were the invitations to Lady Drayton's ball. But even if such a top-lofty gentleman did conceive a tendre, he was not likely to offer more than carte blance...