and later on she attracts the attention of a suitably non-criminal young gentleman and, well, I think we all know how this is going to end. I honestly had thought Dillwyn was better than that. :(

Ugh :( :( While going on one of my periodic research binges on Victorian novelists, I discovered that Dillwyn also wrote a sequel to "Jill" in response to popular demand, called "Jill and Jack"...it was available on Google books so I had a look and the exact same thing happens! Still, as it's a sequel, I guess the het romance can cheerfully be ignored.