Review: The Three Vices:  Patience
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2014
Lady Patience Wainwright is a tall, impetuous young lady with a large dowry. She is not the typical young daughter of an English lord. She seems to always be in trouble. She had a bad experience with a man three years past and as a result has taken it upon herself to guard her two younger cousins during their season so they will not be taken in as she was. She meets Phillip Carrington, Viscount Rexley, when she attemps to prevent her friend, Higgie, from facing Rexley in a duel; the end result her being shot in the arm by Rexley. Of course she tries to hide the injury and she becomes nearly ill when she meets Rexley at a ball that same evening and recognizes him as the man who shot her-worse he recognizes her as the woman he accidentally shot. And she doesn't know it yet, but Rexley's father and Patience's father have signed a contract for Rexley and Patience to wed. Patience had decided long that she did not want to wed and when she discovers the fact of the wedding contract she panics; she knows that she is not the type of woman to wed a viscount and Rexley knows it also, so he tells her that she will take lessons-which goes over like a lead balloon.