In a genteel provincial street during the Napoleonic Wars, Phoebe Throssel expects a proposal from the dashing Valentine Brown, who instead marches off to fight. Ten years later she and her sister Susan keep a school, and when Valentine returns, Phoebe invents a flirtatious niece, Miss Livvy, to show him the girl he has forgotten.
A tender, witty comedy from the author of Peter Pan, which lent its name to a famous box of chocolates. Download the free EPUB.