The second story, The One-Year-Governess, is wrong at the foundation of the story. At the chapter 1, H who is the second son came back home from the war, and found that his elder brother and his sister in law had died and left two children, a boy and a girl, behind. At the chapter 3, it said he was the sole owner of the estate. No, he is not. He might be a guardian of the children, but his 9 year old nephew is the sole owner. H can manage the estate until the nephew grows old enough to manage by himself and H can take a fee for that, but that’s all he can, isn’t it? At the chapter 4, h’s aunt said H’s nephew will be master some day since there’s no chance of H marrying and producing an heir. She’s wrong with the same reason. If H marries and produces a son, the son won’t be an heir to this estate. So H and h’s prospect is so different from what it says in the book, since it didn’t mention if he had earned enough money while serving at the navy, nor if h has any dowry apart from her father’s will with the condition in which she would get a cottage and a yearly income if she doesn’t get married by the age of 25. So when it’s wrong at the foundation like this, it is difficult to get into the story at all. Nobody pointed out this before publishing the book? Of course the easiest solution is to make H’s brother’s children both girls. There are many books with this type of storyline, and usually the authors make children all girls.
