Grand Sophy V

Amabel is recovering from her illness, and Lady Ombersley decides to keep her in London near her doctor..so the Rivenhalls and Sophy dont go to the family estate. Charles also remains in London, and his fiancee has now finished her mourning for one of her aunts, so she is still at her London home and planning to marry Charles as soon as possible. Sophy tells Cyprian Wychbold, Charles' best friend that she feels sure Eugenia wont make Charles happy and she will make the rest of the family miserable with her prudery and tale telling. Wychbold says that he agrees but the engagement is public knowledge and there's no way of stopping the marriage. Sophy can see that Eugenia does not love Charles at all, and that she just wants to get married, but she would surely be happier with someone else and Charles would certainly not suit her. She begins to plan a way out of the tangled love affairs of Charles and Cecy. Lady Ombersley is busy with taking care of the convalescent Amabel, and Sophy meantime consults with Charlbury. She asks Cyprian if he could tell Charles that he saw her, Sophy, driving off with Charlbury one day. He agrees warily and Sophy starts to put her plan into action. She takes out Charles' horses without his permission, provoking a quarrel with him... After this, she and Charlbury leave Berkely Square, havig left a letter for Cecilia. Cecy gets the letter and learns that her cousin has had a row with Charles, and has felt that she has to leave the house and go to Lacy Manor. She says that she has asked Charlbury to go with her, and that if she is compromised, he will have to marry her and that will open the way for Cecy to be able to marry Augustus. Cecy no longer wants to marry Augustus so she is horrified and decides she must go to Lacy Manor to rescue him and SOphy, but unluckily Eugenia is with her when she gets the letter and she is determined to interere. She insists on going out of London with Cecy and taking Lord Bromford as escort.