The fourth season of Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton‘ follows the unconventional romance between Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie Baek. The season begins with Benedict entirely uninterested in settling down, despite his mother’s repeated pleas to settle down for good. The free-spirited Bridgerton sibling is in no mood to follow the rules of society, but his stance changes after he meets an intriguing woman during his mother’s masquerade ball. From the moment he lays eyes on her, he knows she is different from other young ladies brought up to observe social rituals and vie for the attention of suitors. By the end of the night, he is convinced that she is the one for him, but the problem is that she, like everyone else, was wearing a mask, and despite his best efforts, there is no way for him to find her until she finally shows herself. SPOILERS AHEAD.
Benedict’s Search for the Lady in Silver Ends in the Most Unexpected Manner
After an unforgettable encounter with the Lady in Silver, Benedict makes it his mission to find her. He spends weeks attending one ball after another and showing up at all sorts of soirees in the hopes of crossing paths with her again. At one point, he gives up, but renews his search later, only to be disappointed all over again. The second time, however, his disappointment is mixed with relief because, by then, he has crossed paths with Sophie, who is a maid, but with whom he has fallen in love, despite knowing that the difference in their social status will never make their pairing socially acceptable. What he doesn’t know is that Sophie is the Lady in Silver he had been looking for, and the answer comes to him long after he has already fallen for her and decided to be with her, no matter what it takes to do that.
In ‘An Offer From a Gentleman,’ which serves as the source material for the fourth season of the Netflix series, Benedict finds out about Sophie being the Lady in Silver accidentally. Much later in the story, after Benedict has made his offer and Sophie has repeatedly refused it, he finds her playing with Hyacinth and their cousins. Because everyone in that room is a child, there is a lot of chaos, and to calm things down, Sophie suggests they play blind man’s bluff. The children make her wear the blindfold, and while she is still blindfolded and playing with the children, Benedict arrives. He was sent there by Eloise, who reminded him that he owed her a favor and had promised to tutor Hyacinth. He doesn’t know that Sophie is there as well, and his intention is to find his sister. However, the moment he sees Sophie in a blindfold, he realises that the Lady in Silver had been in front of him all along.
The revelation leads to a confrontation where Benedict gets angry with Sophie for not telling him when he had spent months looking for her. She explains that she didn’t feel like she was in a position to tell him, and it wouldn’t have mattered anyway because they weren’t of the same social standing. The fight ends with Sophie revealing that she is the illegitimate daughter of Lord Penwood, and Benedict storms off because he is tired of being repeatedly lied to. The next day, she packs her bags and decides to leave the service in the Bridgerton house. That, of course, leads to another sort of trouble for her. Meanwhile, Benedict’s anger cools down soon enough as he is confronted by the fact that it doesn’t matter to him why Sophie kept the Lady in Silver secret from him or that she is an illegitimate child, or that society would never accept their pairing. All he wants is to be with her, and no secrets and revelations are going to change that.
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