Regency society was full of such rules. Venetia Murray asserts that although "by the time of the Regency, the hard and fast rules of the eighteenth century had been superseded by more flexible standards, to an objective outsider, English society was still a class-ridden minefield, full of inexplicable taboos."
Maneuvering through this social minefield is central to a Regency heroine's life. Whether she's trying to obtain permission to waltz (with the hero, of course) or riding through Hyde Park with unladylike agility, she must always bear in mind the rules of life in ton. Obeying those rules is another matter.
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