Add a pinch of handwavium

Less than two weeks to my posting date on Unconventional Courtship, and my fic is in complete shambles. It's getting worse with every attempt of editing, or so it feels.

And here's the question I've been trying to answer since the start: why would a man wear a veil? I can't really skip that part, because it's rather central point of the Harlequin summary.

Also, I've been going back and forth between (pseudo)historical setting, and (pseudo)modern, and now I have no clue which one would work better. The veil thing doesn't work either way, so that's no help.

I suppose I could always abandon this fic and write something quick and short, but I already have 10K of this, so it feels bad to just toss it?
Gah! I had such fun writing this too.