Since Mother Eve in the Garden long ago

It is so intriguing. What I find the most interesting is the way it's so rough - I can't help but think that if she'd gone back to it, she'd have expanded and eased into it so that you aren't meeting someone new every other paragraph, and continually having backstory information thrown at you, because I don't think her beginnings are usually so abrupt. It's really too bad Mr. Howard doesn't do anything in the original; I've got no idea what sort of romance they would have had or what his character's like or anything. Whereas Tom Musgrave is all over it. Bad boys: much more fun to write, sometimes.

The fragment's on Pemberley.com - http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/watsons1.html