Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux

Its many years since I read the Trollope Palliser series, but I still remember the books. The second book is about Phineas Finn, an Irishman who decides to try his fortune in England and becomes an MP. However he is not from a rich family. His father is a country doctor and Phineas has trained as a lawyer but has not much prospect of inheriting any money. He has good looks and charm however and is a nice natured young man.. and he soon attracts ladies in his new circle in London. Laura Standish is the daughter of an earl, and her brother, Lord Chiltern is a wild young man who has a bad reputation but he and Phineas become friendly. Phineas falls in love with Laura, and manages to forget that there was a pretty girl in Ireland that he had been flirting with... Mary Flood Jones. However Laura decides that she cannot get involved with Phineas, because he has no money, and she has given up her dowry to pay off her brother's debts. So she accepts a proposal from Robert Kennedy, a Scottish MP, who is very wealthy, but puritanical and gloomy.