With her young cousin's future in mind, Elizabeth Harrington advises the young girl to avoid Andrew Norville's marriage proposals, and to her astonishment, soon finds herself the object of his amorous... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This was a story about Miss Harrington took her young cousin, Nora, to London to enjoy a bit of town life and Easter celebration before this 17-year old, high-spirited child settles down with a 36-year old, aloof, retired spy, Andrew Norville, under a high-handed marriage proposal. But they run in to incidence after incidence along the way; and caused mystery after mystery; eventually everything was solved through riddles after riddles, and all the main characters and sub-characters found their rightful companions, and a happy ending. This was more of a mystery and spy story than a romance story. Ms. Gedney gave a lot of background on history of the war and information on customs and practices of the Easter holiday, which I enjoyed reading very much, but not a whole lot on the chemistry and affections among characters; in fact, she handled them like a mystery plot to achieve the surprise ending without much in-depth explanations. I was a little disappointed with characters' development (because couple of them were very annoying, especially Nora, I kept wishing that she will either grow up or be disciplined), but I really enjoyed all the riddles, I think they were very clever. I did enjoy reading the book, well, most of the time anyway.
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