What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?” teenaged Marianne Dashwood rhetorically asks in Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, "Sense and Sensibility." Her prudent sister Elinor replies: “Grandeur. Her prudent sister Elinor replies: “Grandeur has. Marianne’s passions are a far cry from Elinor’s quiet and forlorn love for Edward. How their stories will be resolved is the swoony part. That both young women will have to marry, and soon, is.