Round 13: Tossup 16

When the owner of this location declines to walk his late spouse’s favorite spot in the gardens, the protagonist becomes suspicious that the owner murdered his wife. That protagonist is later scolded for those suspicions by her love interest, this location’s owner’s son. On the protagonist’s first night in this location, a black cabinet of mysterious papers frightens her, but they turn out to be laundry bills. The modern updates to this location disappoint the protagonist, (10[1])who is teased with exaggerated Gothic details similar to The Mysteries of Udolpho on the ride from Bath. The protagonist is unceremoniously ordered to journey home alone from this place after John Thorpe lies about her poverty. For 10 points, Catherine Morland visits what titular home of the Tilneys in a Jane Austen novel? ■END■

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