by Wilkie Collins, Walter Besant
Given his own socially unconventional attitudes (he had a well-documented disdain for the institution of marriage), I think it's unlikely that the plot of this novel - ostensibly a cautionary tale about choosing the rascal over the upright man for a husband - was anything more than a convenient trop...
Thanks for the heads up Brazilliant!:O)
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