Miss Armstead Wears Black Gloves — Marian Devon

OH, BOTHER! HER FIANCE WAS RETURNED FROM THE DEAD!

Of course, he wasn't her real fiance. Miss Frances Armstead had only concocted the spurious engagement as a sop to her uncle, who was insisting that she marry that impossible wag Albert. Fortunately she was quick enough to invent a secret betrothal to the eminent Lord Greville Wainwright, a naval hero long away at sea -- and, rumor had it, now consigned to a watery grave. Poor Frankie pleaded only for a suitable period of mourning: no suitors! She would be wearing black gloves.

But suddenly her ersatz fiancé returned alive and well -- and took wrathful exception to his rumored wedding plans!

Frankie's shame and humiliation knew no bounds, for the proud, implacable Lord Greville followed her to fashionable London. Would he, out of vengeance, ruin her reputation with the ton? No; he had, in fact, quite a different notion of how to settle the score.