'Airy Fairy Lilian'

'Airy Fairy Lilian', Mrs. Hungerford's third novel, is, typically, one of the books which Barbara Cartland has plundered to create her own books. As for the hero's wooing embrace, it goes back to the memorable 'downright kiss' in Richardson's 'Sir Charles Grandison'. Lilian is nineteen, coquette though innocent and naïve, with many soupirants to choose from. At the end, her humour does not fail her, as she told the man who finally will marry her: 'You ought to has asked me long ago!'.