All her efforts gone to waste For six long years, Georgina, a young and lovely heiress, had kept up a grotesque and difficult masquerade. She had disguised her beauty and intelligence behind a mask of homeliness and stupidity. Her reason? To avoid marriage to the odious Freddy, a ne'er-do-well young lord with a taste for life and women that could never include someone as ugly and silly as she pretended to be... Or so Georgina thought!