About the book: 1994 / Count Alton Droxford wants to find himself a wife - one so that he does not have to change his bachelor habits. Karina Randel, a girl from an aristocratic but impoverished family, learns about this. Her family circumstances are so deplorable that she agrees to marry the count, promising to be “accommodating.” The Count marries her. Karina gradually begins to truly fall in love with her husband, and she is tormented by jealousy…