If you must know!

To help you out with the literary reference, I went straight to Amazon and looked up this book. It's a story of the "beautiful, headstrong, intelligent" (how Mary sees herself) Bathsheeba Everdene, who is pursued by multiple suitors, one of whom is a good, dependable guy (like Mary's bf whats-his-name) one is dastardly (Aldo!) and there's another. Is hottie Mary going to get pursued by someone else now? P.S.-writing about this makes me realize how weak it is compared to the comics curmudgeon but oh well.