Desperate Remedies

Cytherea Graye, is poor and but accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not been able to marry. Cytherea in turn loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but with Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the knowledge that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support her sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston, Will true love triumph in the end all will she be forced to live a life of misery with a man she doesn't love.