Sir Phillip Knew from his correspondence with his Dead Wife's distant cousin that eloise bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for...Sir Phillip Knew from his correspondence with his Dead Wife's distant cousin that eloise bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. She wasn't.