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The Game and the Candle ( 1899 ) is like Jane Austen's Persuasion ( 1818 ) rewritten.

Only this time the heroine has married for rational reasons and is freed in the beginning for her true love, which reason forbade her to marry years before.

Her dying husband's last will forces her to decide between love and fortune.

In the renewed encounter with her former lover, she, however, is forced to discover that it was actually a good thing she had not married him.

His love turns to be too shallow for her happiness.

The novel is one of a mature and wise woman who has seen the world.