Status Updates From The Rake and the Wallflower

This is a Signet Regency from 2001, but the heroine seems coded autistic:

"Shyness tied her tongue in knots until she lacked even basic conversation- at least what society considered basic. While she talked well enough about birds, animals, and the natural history off Devon, the polite world cared only for fashion and gossip." (1-2).

Next page; "Her tongue either froze or stammered embarrassing truths." (3)

I can't believe no one has slapped Laura yet.

"But at least the fire had damaged only his bedroom. The library, with its five thousand volumes, was intact." THANK GOODNESS, OMG!!!!

"'You are an ogre of the first water, sir. Merely speaking with you will tarnish my reputation, cancel my voucher to Almack's, and call my virtue into question. You are a hairsbreadth from being cast into eternal perdition with only Blackthorn as company.'
'Ouch.'"

And this Miss is supposed to be shy and quiet?!

Info dump dumps info.

I get the feeling that this is going to be perfectly unremarkable, but I'm comfortable with this.