Up until this point, the book isn’t great or anything, but it’s okay, and the characters are kind of fun. So when the opportunity arises, Patrick seduces Sophie, and before you know it they are engaged and then married. He’s pretty sure that Sophie is only marrying Braddon because he’s an earl. Patrick is furious that Sophie has spurned him, because he is overcome by lust whenever she is near. Her reasoning (I think) is that she doesn’t love Braddon so she won’t care if he is having affairs. When Patrick’s friends Braddon proposes, she accepts him, even though he is also a rake. She spent years growing up in a household with a father who flaunted his affairs, and she knows Patrick is a rake, so he’ll have plenty of affairs. Lady Sophie York knows that she has a tendre for Patrick Foakes, but when she is caught kissing him and he proposes, she won’t accept. Unfortunately, that plot fizzles out in about a hundred pages, leaving two hundred sixty pages of deliberate misunderstandings and depressing tedium. Midnight Pleasures starts out with a rather cute plot about a woman who is in love with one man but engaged to another.
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