A Historical Fiction Short Story..
He hadn't expected to run into Anne Gorman at a dinner party in London, but he had and the experience had shaken him much more than he would have liked. They hadn't spoken to each other in years and now their situations were reversed. He was sought-after and wealthy. She was the unmarried, unloved daughter of a bankrupted baronet. His future dazzled in its possibilities; hers was so diminished as to be grim.
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