Like Scarlett O'Hara, Zuleika Dobson's appeal no longer so much in her outstanding splendor. Though the two women are beautiful enough, there are others in their very own story who can compete on the level of aesthetics; how do you compete with an enchantress, but? Zuleika is an enchantress despite the fact that she prefers to name herself a prestidigitator. Which is surely greater appealing than a governess, her former profession.She travels to Oxford to go to her grandfather who occurs to be the Warden of Judas College. Thanks to the intervention and influence of the Warden, Zuleika enters into the maelstrom of day by day lifestyles that is Oxford University. It is at Oxford that some thing without a doubt impressive occurs to Zuleika: for the very first time in her life she falls in love.The fortunate guy-in principle-is an aristocratic snob who prefers to be called the Duke of Dorset. As such, he's was once alienated from natural human emotions which are expressed without angst by using everyday human beings. Overcome through a flood of emotional lack of control he can simplest slightly realize, the Duke quite an awful lot will become a wobbly piece of jelly on every occasion he sees Zuleika. She is his past love as nicely and, as this stuff generally move, he pops the question on unthinking impulse. Zuleika's reaction is quite literally jaw-losing: no, due to the fact she can not possibly cherished everyone who is not organically repulsed by means of her enchanting charms.