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I have ultimately decided this is a Gothic but not a Gothic romance, because that ending is much too uneasy to be happy (and I say this as a lover of profoundly uneasy endings like Megan Chance's Fallen from Grace and Laura Kinsale's Seize the Fire). The ending is very weirdly anticlimatic for something that involves, uh, very active spoilery things.

I also did not quite find Deborah's passion for Mrs. Palethorpe as convincing as her seduction by Mr. Palethorpe, who was so very attentive to her in that overbearing way in the beginning.