Hardships each character went through (Opaline - imprisonment in a psychiatric hospital, Martha - abusive husband, Henry - abusive father), the "bad guys" not winning or "getting what they deserved," and characters I liked getting their happy ending
The unjust treatment of Opaline: “It didn’t seem to matter how talented, intelligent or independent a woman was, she was still seen as the property of a man, to do with as he pleased.”