It's been a long time since I read this, but I enjoyed the high-jinks in a way that perhaps I wouldn't now. 1930s bodice-rippers were a genre all of their own. I disliked and distrusted de Lancize, but didn't notice just how Angel Clare-like Ranald was. Do not get married to someone you barely know, I suppose is the moral here (though someone you know well can be just as much of a prick, of course.)
I liked Bride a lot, and am sure I could never have come up with the laundry ruse. And Ranald's name for her after their wedding night was quite the eye-opener and not what you'd expect in a 1930s novel at all.
As for child-like as a description for a woman - this was an icky thing that went on even into the 1970s that I can recall. Truly the past is another country. :(
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Date: 2021-10-14 04:24 am (UTC)I liked Bride a lot, and am sure I could never have come up with the laundry ruse. And Ranald's name for her after their wedding night was quite the eye-opener and not what you'd expect in a 1930s novel at all.
As for child-like as a description for a woman - this was an icky thing that went on even into the 1970s that I can recall. Truly the past is another country. :(