Re: Of cabbages and kings....

I guess it really comes down to JA’s reason for letting her villains off lightly. If she does it because she wants to be nice to them that’s one thing, if she does it because she wants it to be realistic that’s another. It’s satisfying to write and read fan fictions where Wickham is shanghaied and sent to the East Indies or has his throat torn out but in real life people like him often do get away with things (IMO and with respect to yours.)

I don’t think anyone is claiming JA is infallible or incapable of human error.