Susan, at the age of seventeen, began to catch greedy male gazes on herself. But even then, assessing her admirers, Sue weighed to herself which of them was attracted to herself, and which to her father’s condition. She believed that a life partner should be chosen wisely, without giving in to emotions. Rowley Stanfield completely coincided with her ideas about her future husband, and Sue accepted his proposal. Well, yes, it will be a marriage of convenience, but what if she is not capable of love? However, Susan could not even imagine how wrong she was in her calculations...