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In the season three finale, the camera lingers on Thompson\u2019s Benedict as Julie Andrews<\/strong>\u2019s narrator says, \u201cIt is time now to look toward the future, whatever it may bring.\u201d For Thompson, this comes back to the words his character says to Eloise as they chat on the swings: \u201cLove isn\u2019t finite.\u201d Says the actor, \u201cWeirdly, though, what the show seems to be exploring with Benedict is that love is<\/em> finite, actually. Our bandwidth is finite, and you have to [make] space for other things and be ready for something else to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n In Julia Quinn\u2019s third novel, An Offer From a Gentleman,<\/em> Benedict\u2019s central romance takes a Cinderella-esque spin. While attending a masquerade ball, he falls in love at first sight with a masked woman named Sophie Beckett (now Baek in the series). She is the daughter of an earl who, after her father\u2019s death, is forced to work as a maid by an evil stepmother\u2014at one point laboring in the Bridgerton house.<\/p>\nWhat happens in Benedict\u2019s Bridgerton<\/em> book?<\/strong><\/h2>\n