Mr. Trevor writes that his daughter Lucy should go to his wealthy family friend, Lady Randolph and that she should choose who she marries with care. Thus begins Lucy’s misadventures with her suitors. Excerpt: “My dear, if it were only in novels, you must have read that girls who have great fortunes are run after by all sorts of unworthy people; and innocent girls like you are apt to be deceived when people are civil.”
