This is a surprisingly gentle contribution to the erotic literature genre, one in which the storyline is more than usually important, and the erotic elements are firmly subservient, even though the situations in which they arise have much potential, as well as being humorous. The plot centres on an (eighteenth century?) rural household consisting of a rich gentleman and his daughter, who is about to marry a military rake. The daughter resents the potential dissipation of the family fortune likely if her father fulfils his intention to marry a local beauty, once he has given her an education in London, and she sends her intended husband to sully the girl’s reputation. As would be expected, there is much flirting, opportunistic raising of skirts, and conjoining of anatomical parts, although this is treated quite lightly. The situation becomes complicated when it becomes clear that other forces of self interest are at work, of both financial and erotic natures, and after much amusing intrigue there is a reasonably satisfactory outcome. ( )