The entire first page of this book was the Christian wedding vows I think we are all pretty familiar with. That was a bad sign, and it didn’t get better. This novel was the sequel to a previous book (or books?) where the couple were star-crossed lovers but now they’re married. It was a lot of sentimental hogwash where different kinds of jealousies caused by never talking to each other almost drove the couple apart but they managed to stay together. There were a lot of self-sacrificing people, and a little disabled child who made people cry because he was so full of joy.

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This final book in the Miss Billy trilogy found Miss Billy getting under my skin. I suppose after two books of sweet and innocent, a third was almost too much. I found Billy's belief in everything she reads quite annoying. The tone of the book reflects the time period, but the idea that women are the "little women" at home with babies got old after a bit to my modern brain. I wanted to take Billy and shake her a few times! It all ends well, and I suppose Billy and Bertram will continue on in their perfect, upper class world. (Yes, I confess - the insistence on having servants to do cooking and cleaning was a tad annoying!) ( )