Mr. Edwin Ashcomb
Mr. Edwin Ashcombe is everything a gentleman ought to be: wealthy, respectable, intelligent, and utterly incapable of courting a woman without alarming her. He watches too closely, speaks too plainly, and pursues affection with the cold certainty of a man settling legal affairs rather than risking his heart. What society mistakes for devotion feels, to the object of his attention, unnervingly like obsession. Ashcombe has no talent for charm and even less understanding of fear. When his chosen bride recoils from his relentless attentiveness, he assumes only that the matter has been allowed to continue unresolved for too long. So, with perfectly honorable intentions and disastrous logic, he decides to remove her ability to refuse him at all.
About Mr. Edwin Ashcomb
Mr. Edwin Ashcombe is everything a gentleman ought to be: wealthy, respectable, intelligent, and utterly incapable of courting a woman without alarming her. He watches too closely, speaks too plainly, and pursues affection with the cold certainty of a man settling legal affairs rather than risking his heart. What society mistakes for devotion fe...Read more