"Hasty marriage." A confusing and fascinating story about a man who was afraid of falling in love, about a bride switch and a marriage of convenience. The intertwining of destinies, passion and fear of a new feeling, fatal love fill the work with non-trivial content and make reading unforgettable.

At thirty-two, the Dowager Earl Peter Darlston, rich, handsome and courteous, was a marriage prize of the first magnitude. However, his first unsuccessful marriage cast a fatal mark on his fate. But debt forced the count to think about an heir. Miss Foliot seemed to him an attractive and intelligent young lady, but several of their fleeting meetings would have led nowhere without a scandal: the girl’s relative, a sharper and drunkard, lost a lot to Darlston and insulted him. The scandal occurred in front of witnesses, and the count cannot forgive. Knowing that the debt of a reckless rake would ruin the family, Peter proposed to Miss Foliot. And after the wedding, such circumstances emerged that the young couple seriously wondered if they had rushed into marriage...