Promises & Perceptions — Rachel Elizabeth Cole

For Isabella Dearborne it's the first ball of the season and she is eager to dance with handsome Mr. Harrison--if only he'll ask her. But when her elder sister, Amelia, rudely spurns her suitor, Mr. Croswell, Isabella dutifully steps in and takes her place. Soon, Isabella begins to see that neither gentleman is quite what she imagined at the beginning of the evening.

Promises & Perceptions is a Regency short story of about 4000 words or 15 pages which should appeal to fans of the inimitable Miss Jane Austen.