Review: Major Wycliffe's campaign
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2013
Lady Sophia visits the sick soldiers in the hospital; one of the soldiers, Major Anthony Wycliffe, is very ill and dying. In one of his lucid moments, he asks Sophia to marry him and she agrees because she knows he is dying and does not want to refuse his request. Sophia is distraught over news of Major Wycliffe's death and weary of town life and leaves London. But Major Wycliffe did not die and he sought out Sophia to marry her. He finds her at Rathburn manor, in the middle of the night, burying her corsets and desk. Sophia is shocked to see him alive but more so that he actually believes she will go through with marrying him. He attributes her strange behavior to being in shock still over news of his death.In actuality, Sophia is trying to become a liberated woman in her time. Sophia adamantly refuses to marry him , numerous times, but that doesn't stop the Major. His attempts to woo her are in vain; he spends much of his time trying to keep her out of trouble to protect her reputation. A good book.