In the novels of the period the dilemma was felicitously solved by the discovery, on the last page, that the apparently penniless heroine was really a great heiress .

在当时的小说里，这一难题常常由最后一页的重大发现得以圆满地解决：原先一文不名的女主人摇身一变，成了巨额财富的继承人。