The Heyer kick continues. When will it end? When will I be too ashamed to continue to record it in my blog?
In this one, that clearly she was just churning out to pay the bills, we see a reversal of her usual plot. Here a couple pretends to be engaged (for reasons of inheritance), while the lady tries to make the gentleman she is actually interested in jealous.
The man she is actually interested in is a classic Heyer hero (dark, brooding, etc) and the one she is just pretending with is the type that’s usually the comic sidekick. Thus you think it is going one way, but instead – fairly cleverly – it goes the other. She realizes the man she thinks she is loves is selfish and difficult, whereas the the one she is sure she does not love is in fact the very man for her. Hurray!