From the moment we see her bemoaning her return to “shabby little Shibden” as she looks disdainfully at her literal mansion, we get the sense that perhaps our Anne has a higher standard of living than most. “Banality and mediocrity are the only things that have ever really frightened me,” she tells her part-time lover in bed one night, as they discuss her desire to travel the world and simultaneously restore her estate to its former wealth and glory.

But it’s not just the material things that Anne is ambitious about: she’s determined to have a happy ending in love as well.

She balks at the suggestion that she should marry a man as a “fig leaf cover-up”, saying, “I thoroughly intend to live with someone I love… someone who is there all of the time, to share everything with, not someone who just drops in every now and then whenever her irritable husband permits it.” Cheers to that.

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