Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.
The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.
For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness.