It was the height of the season.

At dazzling balls and coming-out parties,

the Tan gathered to flirt with the latest

crop of beauties.

Ambitious mothers displayed their be-

decked and bejeweled daughters before

the country s most eligible matrimonial

prospects.

That year, sophisticated London was mali-

ciously diverted by the love affairs of Lord

Byron.

But the whole town would soon be titil-

lated by even more scandalous events!