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The heroine
Insists that she is determined never to marry even if she has never been involved with or even talked to an eligible bachelor before she meets the hero - 1 sip.
Runs the family and scrapes together the funds to support everyone - 1 sip.
But the family is paupered anyway because Absent Minded Daddy's expensive hobbies must be indulged at all costs - 2 sips.
Has somehow remained oblivious to desire or any other puberty-induced mental development - 1 sip.
Insists that she is plain and no man will want her even when she has never mingled with men in her daily going-abouts - 1 sip.
But of course, she's actually very beautiful - 5 sips.
Decides to ruin herself for the latest fad in martyrhood - 2 sips.
Takes part in a deception or a masquerade even if she feels like she will go to hell for lying - 6 sips.
Gives her first name to the hero when she is supposed to be in a disguise - 9 sips.
Wears a boy's costume to run around at night. - 2 sips.
Insists that she can do better than to marry a man she has known all her life but does not love - SHE  WILL RUIN HERSELF WITH SOME RANDOM STRANGER! - 10 sips.
Vows to cherish the memory of that One Sex Thing for the rest of her life, a life which she is determined to keep as loveless and barren as possible - 20 sips.
Treats sex as some scientific experiment. - One mug.
Compromised after that sexual experiment. - 3 sips.
Turns down hero's proposal because she would rather be ruined than to marry a rich man without love - 2 mugs.
Marries him anyway. - 5 sips.
Blames herself from trapping him in a loveless marriage. - 10 sips.
Loveless as in "She loves him but she knows he doesn't love her back." - 1 mug.
When hero says that he loves her, she refuses to believe it because she remembers that she is plain and hence unlovable. - 2 mugs.
And therefore she decides to run away. - 5 mugs.
Because she'd rather die alone than to allow the hero to trap himself in a loveless marriage to her. For his own good. - Keg party!

The hero
Rake - 1 sip.
Ex-spy - 2 sips.
Still a spy - 2 sips.
War hero - 1 sip.
Slutty dead wife - 2 sips.
Sluttier mistress - 1 sip.
Traumatized little kiddies - 2 sips.
Hires heroine to be a nanny - 5 sips.
Has a eye-rolling nickname derived from "Devil", "Nick", "Lucifer", and such - 3 sips.
Belongs to a club of men who are begging for sequels - 4 sips.
The previous two things occur in a Stephanie Laurens book - 8 mugs.
Doesn't believe in love. - 6 sips.
Skanky sex scene with mistress on first page of book - 6 sips.
This skanky sex scene takes place in a Nicole Jordan book. - 16 sips.
Lusts after the heroine, intending to seduce her and then forget her. - 2 sips.
Tries to slake lust with a mistress or a prostitute but can't get it up - 8 sips.
This limp scene takes place in a Connie Mason book - 28 sips.
Runs away into the country to escape marriage-minded mommas - 2 sips.
Actually mistakes the heroine in a boy's costume as a boy. - 4 sips.
Went to America and became a rich, self-made man - 10 sips.
Went to India and learned plenty of sex tricks - 10 sips.
Went to Scotland and became a laird. - 5 sips.
Went to France and got captured by French soldiers - 6 sips.
Suffers from traumatic flashbacks to that War - 2 sips.
The only one who can decode the secret clue in some dirty book of poetry - 7 sips.
Stiff-lipped but decides to pose as a rake in an undercover mission - 5 sips.
This mission involves a sex club - 13 sips.

Plot developments
Villain tells all in the showdown - 4 sips.
Heroine's disguise or secret is exposed after the first sex scene - 7 sips.
The French spy is a British nobleman - 5 sips.
Who is the Other Man - 7 sips
The French spy is some prostitute or mistress - 8 sips.
Who is trying to get her claws into the hero - 10 sips
Hero hires some boy to spy on the heroine - 6 sips.
Hero's valet is an ex-soldier - 4 sips.
Or the valet is an ex-criminal - 3 sips.
The hero saved the valet's life once upon a time - 9 sips.
Heroine rushes into the hero's room at night in the opening scene - 5 sips.
Hero is half-naked - 2 sips.
Hero has just finished shagging some tart - 7 sips.
The heroine asks the hero to spare her brother in some duel - 4 sips.
The brother has no discernable sex life or even a clue even though the hero, at that kid's age, has been seducing women in every country in Europe - 10 sips.
That Damned Missing Brother plot - 5 sips.
That Book That Contains A Clue Only The Hero Can Decipher - 5 sips.,
That Book also contains pornographic images - 10 sips.
The heroine's ex- or late beau is a scumbag - 1 sip.
Who is lousy in bed - 2 sips.
Who yet could still manage to have many affairs with other women to spite our heroine - 8 sips.
The widowed heroine is still a virgin - 3 sips.
The non-virginal widowed heroine doesn't know anything about sex - 4 sips.
You start getting this feeling that the heroine is actually 12 years old - 20 sips.
You wish your 12-year old daughter is as innocent as the heroine - 1 mug.
Whatever the plot, it always comes down to the hero and the heroine driving each other away for the other person's own good - keg party!