Review: Who would have thought gossip could travel as fast as this?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2013
So the guy told a joke in poor taste? What's the big deal? Well apparently it was a huge deal and the town went nuts. This poor man quoted Shakespeare and the people didn't get it. So- as many the gossips do- the story got shipped back to his intended as a challenge- he won't marry her until she has his ring on her finger and his baby in her belly. She accepts the challenge and ends up baiting him into sleeping with a fine Frenchmaiden and….. well read to find out the rest. But the humor of this story is that it could be read as if though it happened just this century. The letters read almost like emails and remind me great of Meg Cabot's Boy Series. I found that the relationship between the Heroine and her intended was explained just enough for me to understand how we came to this point in the relationship and yet I wonder why he would treat her so carelessly. If you don't want me, why string me along? Surely the riches you have could buy you eternal bachelorhood. However the story has a classic ending and makes the foolishness of the town- and his behavior- and the more amusing.