CHAPTER TWONeil MacFile, the Viscount File, had been pursued by women ever since he had left school.
He was the heir to one of the oldest Earldoms in Scotland and he was exceedingly rich.
He was very handsome and extremely intelligent.
His reports from the school that he had attended in Edinburgh were so complimentary that his father would query them.
He received a first class degree with honours at Oxford University without any difficulty.
And it was inevitable that he should find the Social world that surrounded the Prince Regent, soon to become King George IV, amusing and fascinating.
He was warned by all his contemporaries to have nothing to do with debutantes. They pointed out to him that he was a most marriageable catch and that ambitious mothers would have him at the top of th
