Dearest Gentle Reader, Leading on from the torment of hearing the very words she had never expected to come from his mouth. "I wouldn't dream of courting Penelope Featherington, never in your wildest fantasies." Although dear reader, she still loved him dearly. Her one true love, her first love. But what's worse? The love from what caused you pain or the pain caused from whom you love. Thus being said...it's in the hands of yours truly, Lady Whistledown.