I loved this show, but those last thirty seconds where they wrapped everything up felt so rushed! I got the Catherine and Henry part, but what happened with Henry's sister? She found love and wealth? Wasn't she in love with some common soldier we barely saw?
shareThe narrator said very briefly that although she was in love with a second son (one who would not have ordinarily come into fortune), the man unexpectedly came into a great deal of money. Because of this, she was able to marry him.
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Yes, it seemed so rushed. We could barely take the ending in and had to watch it on youtube to comprehend the ending. So you're not alone.
The narrator in fact tells us that Eleanor Tilney found her happiness as the result of "her beloved's unexpected accession to title and fortune".
Given the term "accession", one must assume that some rather unfortunate events had befallen both her beloved's father AND his older brother.
The film takes a few liberties in the timeline of events. In the book, General Tilney thereafter addresses his daughter as "Your Ladyship" as she is now a Viscountess. Following her marriage, Eleanor is instrumental in reconciling the General with the banished Henry and with Catherine and the true circumstances of Catherine's hardly-destitute family. The General relents, and only then are Henry and Catherine married, still within twelve months of their first meeting, and none the worse for wear.
I am glad you asked this question but yes the man she loved came into some money after all and then they could marry