How long does it take to read His Lady Mistress?
His Lady Mistress by Elizabeth Rolls takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 288 pages, about 79,200 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After Verity Scott’s father, an army officer, commits suicide she becomes an unpaid servant to her grasping relatives, the Farringdons. She is taken aback one day when the kind soldier who helped bury her father comes to the house as a guest, only now he is Lord Blakemore, an eligible bachelor. Blakemore does not recognize Verity at first, as she has been given a different name. The two are drawn to each other and she considers running away with him to become his mistress. However once he finds out who she really is, he offers her marriage instead.
Subjects: Fiction, romance, historical large print