An Unsuitable Match — Alice Thornton

Mary Drayton's improvident father had left her, on his death, in quite degrading circumstances. So when Justin, Lord Hawkridge, fell in love with her, and she with him, Mary was heartbroken but not surprised when he apparent came to his sense. To find him again in Bath, years later, when she was on a mission of mercy, as a shock - more so when he clearly thought that she had abandoned him! But nothing had changed; she was still an unsuitable match for him...