Full Moon — Georgette Heyer

A man, Lord Stavely, arrives quite late in Shropshire. Assuming that he is too late for dinner, he stops at an inn, whereupon he stumbles across a man drinking heavily and sad about his upcoming elopement with an heiress. It appears the heiress' papa has set her up with a, assumed, fat old fella, and the heiress wants nothing to do with that.