Reader, I can appreciate what this book probably was at its time, however, it mostly makes me so grateful I wasn't born 100 years ago. There were points I found the story interesting and then a lot of it was just over descriptive sentences of the same thing. It is why I struggle with the "classics".
I was so happy she didn't marry St. John - what a manipulative jack wagon. But she did end up with her love, who is also the man who hid his wife in the attic for years. Oof Janet. What a love story.