Her Aunt Said She Was Too Plain to Be Painted — The Duke Hung Her Portrait in the Place of Honour

"No Blacksmith's Daughter Marries a Duke" The Village Said — The Duke Married One by October

She Was Told to Sing Only Where No Guest Could Hear — The Duke Sat the Guests Down to Hear Her

The Steward Told the Duke She Could Not Be Trusted With the Rents — She Collected Every One

"Let Her Keep the Accounts if It Amuses Her" the Duke Said — The Accounts Found the Money He Lost

She Translated the Letter the Duke Paid to Bury — He Asked Her to Stay by Christmas

The Duke Was Turned Away From His Own Brother's Sickroom — The Surgeon's Daughter Held the Door

She Was the Only One Who Could Ride the Duke's Ruined Hunter — He Knelt in the Mud by Michaelmas

Her Aunt Said She Was Only There to Turn the Pages — The Duke Asked Her to Play Them Instead

She Won the Card Game the Duke Never Lost — He Spent the Rest of the Year Trying to Win Her

She Mistook the Duke for a Stablehand — He Answered to It for a Fortnight

"You Were Tolerated, Not Welcomed" The Duke Said — She Left Before Anyone Could Tell the Difference.

The Duke Wanted a Wife of Status — The Gardener's Daughter Made Him Want Something Real

The Duke Signed Her Out of the Contract — She Signed Herself Into a Better One

The Duke Crossed Her Name Off the Guest List — She Bought the House Before the Party Ended

"You Are Naive," the Duke Told Her — She Rebuilt the Bridge His Family Had Left to Rot

The News From Derby Reached Ninefields a Little After Noon — The Duke Arrived That Evening for Coal

"We Require Shelter," the Duke Said — She Told Him He Could Carry the Horses the Last Mile

She Had Heard of the Duke and Was Not Impressed — He Found This Completely Irresistible

Someone Introduced Them Wrongly and No One Corrected It — The Duke Asked Her Name Twice

The Duke Sent Her Three Gifts In a Week — She Returned All Three With a Polite Note

The Duke Was Caught in Her Village During the Floods — She Put Him to Work and He Did Not Complain

The Duke Had Never Had to Introduce Himself — She Asked His Name Because She Genuinely Did Not Know

The Commission Came From the Duke of Marne's Secretary — She Was in His Library Before He Knew It

The Duke Had Never Been Contradicted at His Own Table — She Did It Twice and Finished Her Soup

She Had Not Come to Ashmore to Be Looked At — The Duke Was the Only One Who Understood That

"She Paints Flowers, Nothing More" the Duke's Sister Sneered — The Royal Academy Disagreed

The Duke Expected Something Shabbier — The Brass Knocker Had Been Polished That Morning

She Had Been Away Eight Months and Came Back Without Warning — The Duke's Valet Left His Service

The Duke Stood by the East Window With a Glass He Had Not Touched — She Was the Only One Who Saw

Dunmore Had Twelve Bedrooms and One Working Chimney — She Was the Only Guest the Duke Kept

She Ran the Lending Library at Mossfield — The Duke Came Back Every Week and Borrowed Nothing

Mrs. Partridge Seated Her Twenty-Three Guests Badly on Purpose — The Duke Was Placed Beside Her

The Sale at Calloway's Began at Ten — By Half Past, the Duke Had Been Outbid by a Woman He'd Mocked

"Let Her Play at Farming" the Duke Said — His Tenants Paid Their Rents to Her by Spring

She Counted the Duke's Smiles From the Gallery — Seven in Eleven Minutes, and None of Them Real

"Pretty Enough, Sharp as a Spoon" the Duke Told His Valet — The Spoon Cut Him Down to Size

She Arrived With a Ruined Hat and a Book of Greek — The Duke Asked Her to Read It Aloud

"I'd Rather Be a Spinster Than Your Duchess" She Said — What He Did 3 Years Later Changed Her Mind

She Had Fourteen Minutes Before She Was Required to Be Charming — She Spent Them on the Duke's Debt

Weyborne Had No Reason to Expect a Duke — He Arrived on a Grey Horse With One Servant and No Name

The Duke Came to King Street and Asked to Speak to Mr. Rowe — Diana Rowe Offered Him a Chair

Sir Edmund Lit the Candles an Hour Before They Were Needed — The Duke Noticed Who Sat in the Dark

She'll Cry at the Sight of Mud, the Duke Said — She Rode Through a Storm to Save His Harvest

The Duke Preferred a Column of Figures to Almost Anything — Then He Burned the Annulment Papers

Three Days Before the Wedding the Duke Asked Her to Be Invisible — The Room Went Silent Anyway

She Stepped Toward the Terrace for Air and Heard a Stranger Describing Her — So Did the Duke

The Church Clock in Marlbury Stopped in 1809 and No One Mended It — The Duke Asked Her Why

Every Soul in the Harbour Would Learn the Duke Owed His Fortune to a Woman in Trade — He Did Not

"I'm Not the Girl You Left Behind" She Told the Duke — He Knew She Was Right

The Duke's Sister Kept Every Letter He Wrote About Her — She Read Them Aloud the Night He Denied It

I Pity the Man Who Marries Her, the Duke Said — He Was That Man by Friday

Three Carriages Reached Aldermere at the Same Hour — The Duke Married the Woman in the Last One

Winchester Had Already Decided What Would Happen When the Duke Arrived — No One Asked Her

The Duke Gave Her a List of Things a Duchess Doesn't Do — She Kept It as a Guide

She Watched the Carriage Come Up the Drive and Thought It Too Good for the Duke — She Was Wrong

The Duke Spent Three Days To Reach the Same Answer — She Solved It on the Carriage Ride Over

The Earl Didn't Want a Wife. He Wanted Her Gone. She Stayed.

"She Isn't Worth Fighting For" the Duke Said — He Was at Her Door by Morning

Ashcroft Had Learned to Step Out of the Duke's Shadow Quietly — She Arrived and Did Not