This collection includes three love-historical stories - “The Trap for a Coquette”, “Ttimid Breath” and “Take Me to Marry”.....The young Countess Pogodina, left an orphan, comes to high-society St. Petersburg. Maria's cousin, Count Manokhin, a man who evokes disgust and contempt in her, having learned that the orphan is rich, intends to marry her. But the girl is against it! How to avoid a hateful marriage? And Maria decides on a desperate act - to ask Prince Mityashev to take her as his wife...