Isabella is rather a spoilt young beauty and one of the most popular young girls in Society. But she is fond of Sherry and has known him since she was a child. However she refuses him, because she does not love him and she says that she knows he does not really love her; he has just proposed because she is the fashion at present and he's too selfish to love anyone but himself.
Sherry is annoyed with her for turning him down and being so unladylike as to refer to his having mistresses, but he leaves her house and drives off back home. His mother and uncle are annoyed that Isabella has refused him because she is an heiress, and her estate is near to Sherry's. He gets more and more angry with his selfish relatives, finally storming out, saying that in order to get hold of his estate, he will marry the first woman he sees and sets out to drive back to London.
On the way, he meets the 17 year old Hero Wantage, who is also a neighbor. She lives with her cousins, and is a poor relation. She looks unhappy so he stops to talk to her, and she tells him that her cousin Jane has said that she should start earning her living and she's being sent to Bath to become a governess. Sherry laughs at the idea, as she is not all that well educated and she is so young. She tells him that her cousin has said that the local curate also has proposed to her, and that she must either marry him, or get a job as a governess...
Sherry has always in his careless way felt sorry for Hero, and he tells her that Isabella refused him, and that he had said that he would marry the first woman he saw. Hero laughs and says that that is her. He thinks about it and feels that marriage to him would be better for Hero than a job as a governess, and that he would secure a wife who would not interfere with him and he would gain control of his fortune. Hero has always had a crush on him, and she decides to marry him.
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