YMMV / No Name

• Magnificent Bitch: Mrs. Virginie Lecount is the clever, perceptive housekeeper of Noel Vanstone and the one pulling the strings behind her master's decisions. When Magdalen Vanstone decides to marry Noel to get back her and her sister's inheritance and enlists the help of Captain Wragge to do so, Mrs. Lecount catches on to their scheme very soon. She and Captain Wragge are swift to plan on the fly, with Noel as a subtly-manipulated Unwitting Pawn that each of them bends to their will. At first Wragge's plan seems to succeed and Noel elopes with Magdalen, but Mrs. Lecount gets the last laugh. She tracks the newlyweds down, finally exposes Magdalen's scheme to Noel with previously-obtained proofs, and gets him to change his will, so his death soon afterwards leaves Magdalen penniless. However, of all his riches, Mrs. Lecount only asks for 5,000 pounds for herself: the exact sum his father promised her before dying intestate. Satisfied with getting her due, she retires to her native Switzerland and becomes a beloved benefactress.
• Sweetness Aversion: Multiple critics believe that the ending, with Magdalen abruptly getting a Rescue Romance and a Happily Ever After (with a character who barely appeared before, to boot), is overly sugary and clashes with the cynical tone of the rest of the novel.