Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-hand

"e;This is a most amusing little story of what we may call the "e;genteel farce"e; kind. Mrs. Pendleton, who has been a pronounced flirt in her married life, becomes a widow at twenty-four, and receives simultaneous offers of marriage from four admirers. It must, she thinks, be a practical joke; to avenge the insult she engages herself to the four."e; -The Spectator, 11 July 1903